Catalogue of Insects of Perkins Collection

This material is held atMuseum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 433 Perkins
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1907
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume

Scope and Content

Volume entitled: 'Localities &c. of Mr. R.C.L. Perkins' collection of British Hymenoptera Aculeata', Dec. 1907. This is a list of species on left-hand page, with corresponding localities on right-hand page. Only 9 pages are used, rest is blank.Enclosed there is also an annotated copy of E. Sanders, Catalogue of British Hymenoptera Aculeata. Perth, May 1890, 8 pp.

Administrative / Biographical History

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (1866-1955) lived and worked for many years in the early 20th century on the Hawaiian Islands and contributed several chapters to the Fauna Hawaiiensis edited by David Sharp (1903, 1913). He gave a small collection of Hymenoptera to the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.

Access Information

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Note

Description compiled by Kees Rookmaaker, Archives Hub project archivist.

Other Finding Aids

None

Subjects

Entomology