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Description: | Various families of moths and butterflies, most of which are unidentified. They have been grouped by locality/region as far as this is useful.
The majority are neotropical, but there are also specimens labelled Canary Islands, New Zealand, India, New York, etc.
The collection was originally in store boxes. At some time the contents of some of these have been transferred to two cabinets now in Attic Rm1. Several store boxes, presumably the originals, whose contents match in appearance, labelling style, etc., are in Attic Rm 2. These also have a characteristic hand-written paper label on the front top edge of the lid of each box describing contents eg. 'Lepidoptera, Argentina, 1876' etc. This information appears to have been carried over to the specimems in the drawers, on printed labels 'Scott Maxwell Coll' and sometimes a printed label giving localities such as 'Canary Is', 'Trinidad', etc. Some labels appear a little strange and may be mixed up - specimens of the same species are labelled as from New Zealand and Trinidad; also a Ghost swift moth labelled as from West Indies, etc.
Part of Scott Maxwell colln in Attic Room 1 which includes some material originally collected by Thomas Chapman. The collection was originally in 45 store boxes (in 1905) but some transferred to a cabinet. | Subjects: | Zoology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Part of Scott Maxwell colln in Attic Room 1 which includes some material originally collected by Thomas Chapman. The collection was originally in 45 store boxes (in 1905) but some transferred to a cabinet. | Identifier: | H-Z267 |
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