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Description: | Miscellaneous beetles.
Laid out in the usual 'King' style with insects in the front half of the drawer facing the observer and the rear half facing away so that the drawer has to be taken out of the cabinet and turned around to read the labels. Possibly done so that specimens can be reached for removal and replacement without leaning over too many others.
Cabinet in same style as others with shallow drawers with champhored edges in a cabinet with doors inlaid in inner panel (probably locally made). The catalogue used, corresponding to the cabinet labels and sometimes numbers written under the cards, etc., is Beare & Donisthorpe (1904). There is a set of Staphylinidae already laid out in Hills drawers in Room 214 and none in this cabinet. They may have been in a separate cabinet on receipt and put into this system.
But black ink numbers under cards correspond to 'Dr Sharp's British Catalogue of Beetles' according to King's manuscript notebook. This may relate to a different set of beetles? ( NB. His notebooks have two parallel series of numbered insects, depending on whether they are carded or direct pinned. These numbers are a code for the localities from which they came and include a lot of the Irish places he visited).
Many specimens collected by King, but rarer or more southern species can be from other sources. Part of JJFX King collection stored in Attic Room No 1, cabinet 'D'. | 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 JJFX King collection stored in Attic Room No 1, cabinet 'D'. | Identifier: | H-Z281 |
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