In their 2000 study about this activity, Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle incorporated a hitherto unpublished second afterword to the novel The Gift, translated by its author's son (*) Dmitri.
A chapter devoted to this activity recounts how its author was nearly arrested for signaling an English warship while performing it. A Berlin shopkeeper suffers a fatal stroke while reaching for a money pot needed to finance an overseas trip to partake in this activity in the story "The Aurelian," titled for an archaic name for its performers. In their 2000 study about this activity, Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle incorporated a hitherto unpublished second afterword to the novel The Gift, translated by its author's son (*) Dmitri. The Swiss-French governess Mademoiselle O accidentally sits on and crushes to death several specimens gathered during this activity, as recounted in the sixth chapter of Speak, Memory. For 10 points, name this branch of entomology avidly pursued by Vladimir Nabokov.
A chapter devoted to this activity recounts how its author was nearly arrested for signaling an English warship while performing it.
lepidopterology [or lepidoptery; or any answer having to do with collection or studying butterflies or moths; prompt on entomology]