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Correspondence of curators in the Department of Entomology pertaining to all orders of insects. Most correspondence refers to management of the scientific specimens, research, exchange of information, publications, and other curatorial responsibilities. Field books and catalogs refer to butterfly and moth specimens housed in the department's scientific collection. Records are largely 20th century.

79 cubic ft.

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American Museum of Natural History. Dept. of Entomology.

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Eight of the ten specimens depicted were part of the Grote and Robinson Collection, 20,000 specimens of American and European Lepidoptera donated to the Museum by Robinson in 1870. The other two specimens were among the 4,000 specimens collected during Beutenmuller's Expedition to the Black Mountains from June to October 1912, financed by Samuel V. Hoffman. From the description of Entomological museum studio photographs, 1912-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...