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Description: | Extensive collection of both British and foreign material including several large and important collections of the major orders. The collection is largely uncatalogued down to specimen level and individual database records have only been created for the Fountaine-Neimy butterfly collection and the pre-eminent Bridgman hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants) collection, although there are some notebooks associated with particular collectors. The collection covers actual insect specimens of, for example, beetles and weevils; gnats and flies; bees, wasps and ants; grasshoppers and cockroaches; dragonflies; springtails; stick insects; lacewings; bugs, lice and aphids; and millipedes together with spiders in the form of dried and pinned specimens, spirit specimens and microscope slides. 382 type specimens (specimen on which the description and naming of a species is based) are included in the whole collection. Also included are wasps, hornets and ants nests, and a range of infested woods. The collection mostly derives from Britain although there are specimens from Greece, Australia and South America. Within the Insect Collection the most important discrete collections are the outstanding Fountaine-Neimy foreign butterfly collection; the internationally significant Bridgman hymenoptera collection; the Bedwell collection of British and foreign coleoptera (beetles and weevils) and hemiptera (aphids, lice and bugs); the Whittingham collection of British Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths); and the Edwards collection of British coleoptera and hemiptera. The collection is not on display although the Fountaine-Neimy and Bridgman collections are housed in suites of drawers, in the Shirehall Study Centre.
The majority of the collection is awaiting unpacking following the major redevelopment of Norwich Castle Museum and this presents volunteering opportunities | Format: | 400000 specimens | Subjects: | Collecting Taxonomy Insects Entomology | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7170 | Format: | 400000 specimens | Go to resource |
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