Philadelphia

[Chris J. Durden]

I seem to remember that sometime in the 1960's all or most of the butterfly 
types were sent from ANSP to Carnegie Museum in exchange for Orthoptera. I 
think this trading of type and voucher specimens away from the repository 
of published record is reprehensible, but I am in a minority in today's 
commercially oriented and market driven museum world. The ICZN should have 
a rule about this or tomorrow we may find the BM and other great world 
collections repatriated and off limits for study, perhaps even subject to 
Afghan-style special conservation measures. There, thats my sound off for 
this week - next week maybe population again.
..............Chris Durden

At 06:24 AM 3/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes the Academy of Natural Sciences still exists and is one of the
>premier natural history museums in the country (although its edifice is
>not as pre-possessing as some).  It is at 19th St and Ben Franklin
>Parkway (more or less).
>
>Not only does it maintain excellent collections (it's neotropic bird
>collection is probably the third best in the country after the AMNH and
>LSU), but it also has a very appealing live butterfly exhibit.
>
>M. Gochfeld
>
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