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Description: | Cabinet of British beetles with shallow drawers that uses the 1863 Crotch 'A Catalogue of British Coleoptera' as a label list. The cabinet labels are cut out close to type and with corners trimmed off for the family and generic headings. There were a number of lists came out in short succession at about this time. Crotch's was superceded quite quickly but the collector, having invested in laying out the drawers, might have been loathe to change and used it for many years afterwards.
As a collection there are many gaps, even in the list used. Also, there are lots of pin holes where specimens have been. The odd specimen has been inserted from other collections (eg Beaumont; a specimen from Beattock, 1894, etc.) so it may have been one of Bishop's and he moved specimens about (unless this was done here some time subsequently). Several of the carded beetles were in exactly the same style of pinning as those in Bishop's two 40-drawer cabinets in Rm214a.
Perhaps some clue as to collector may emerge during processing. Unknown, but label list is of 1863 vintage. | Subjects: | Zoology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Unknown, but label list is of 1863 vintage. | Identifier: | H-Z292 |
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