EDNote: I've appended a snip from MR's post of 11/1/06 (the quote from Psychical
Research Today), and one from "Jasper Fidget" in 2003. A
tantalizing network of possible connections. ~SB
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Thanks to SB for filling in the gaps b/w Shelford and VN's butterfly
interests. (And yes, I noticed that Nature Conservancy's butterfly,
since
it is on the free address labels they sent me). I used JStor to look up
a
review of Shelford's A Naturalist in Borneo (reprinted, btw, by Oxford
UP
in 1987) and learned that it does indeed include a chapter on Mimicry.
I've requested it from a nearby library.
I wonder if it is possible to see the name Walter Campbell in PF as a
kind
of visual example of mimicry, when place alongside Robert Walter
Campbell
Shelford. The visual analogy would be to something like the owl
butterflies, which present an owl eye on each wing to fool predators.
If
I imagine Robert Walter as a wing and Campbell Shelford as a wing,
Walter
Campbell is kind of like the owl eyes on those wings.
Robert walter campbell Shelford
walter campbell
Matt Roth
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From MR, 11/1/06:
"A case of this kind was Ansel Bourne, an American
preacher. He was a rather unhealthy man who had since
childhood suffered from depressed moods. When he was
sixty-one, he lost his sense of identity, wandered off
into a distant town, and set up as a store-keeper under
another name. After six weeks he suddenly reverted to
his old self and came back home. More interesting still
. . . was the case of "Miss Beauchamp". She developed a
secondary personality called Sally, and there were changes
from one to the other almost daily. Ordinarily Miss Beauchamp
was a shy, submissive creature who took pains to conduct
herself with propriety; but Sally was self-assertive, vain,
spiteful, and mischievous." (Donald James West, Psychical Research
Today, 58)
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:57:04 -0400
> From: "Jasper Fidget" <fakename@verizon.net>
> Subject: NPPF Comm3: Beauchamp and Campbell
>
> p. 126
> "Monsieur Beauchamp had sat down for a game of chess at the
bedside of Mr.
> Campbell"
>
> Lord Beauchamp: English titles can be inscrutable at times, but
this seems
> to be one of Henry Seymour's (1612-1686), a Royalist supporter and
close
> personal attendant of Charles II during the Civil War and
afterwards in
> exile. He bore the prince's last personal message to his father
before
the
> King was beheaded.
>
> May also be Edward Seymore, Thomas Seymore, or William Seymore,
but I'm
too
> confused to investigate further.