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Letter: Letter

Published 20 June 1998

From Richard Carter

Data sleuths may be able to tell us how many butterflies we have never seen,
but could they not go one step further and tell us where to find that damned
Amazonian butterfly which is responsible for all those hurricanes?

Bromborough, Wirral

Issue no. 2139 published 20 June 1998

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