George Salt and Virtual Museum

[Felix Sperling]

Lep people:

I just found a good example of how our University of Alberta Virtual 
Museum http://www.entomology.ualberta.ca/  can be useful for doing 
historical searches.

A colleague gave me an obituary from the London Times for George 
Salt, who died in England Feb. 17th, 2003, aged 99.  George Salt grew 
up in Calgary and attended the University of Alberta. After time at 
Harvard, and much travel and research around the world, he ended up 
as Reader in Animal Ecology at Cambridge University, doing classic 
research on insect parasites along the way.

A search of our Virtual Museum site, using "Salt, George" from the 
list of collectors in the specimen search function, shows that we 
have databased about 60 specimens, from 39 species, in the University 
of Alberta Strickland Museum that were collected by George Salt. Most 
are lepidoptera, including lots of moths, but also one beetle, and 
most are from Calgary during 1919 to 1922, when he would have been 
15-18 years old.

Check it out!  Notice that if you click on the blue "Collector" above 
the box in the specimen search that allows you to search for 
collectors, then you will get an alphabetized list of all collectors.

Felix Sperling

ps:  If any of you have a website link to the Virtual Museum page, 
could you please change it to the url above! This new internet 
address will help us to make the Virtual Museum searchable via 
Google. However, before the Google Crawler can be enticed into 
indexing our species pages, we need to have as many links as possible 
to the site above from other web pages.  Thanks!


 
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