[NHCOLL-L:3022] Re: Long lost bumblebees

[Art Harris]

A possibility is the Univ. Colorado Natural History Museum; I think both 
Maslin and Rodeck were associated with it at one time or another.

Art Harris

colin favret wrote:
> Hello all,
>     A year ago Roger Maina's (deceased) son contacted me about some 
> bumblebees he had taken on loan from the INHS in the 1940s. Upon picking 
> the material up in Chicago, I found four non-INHS Schmidt boxes, two of 
> which belong to Oregon State U. The other two are of unknown provenance, 
> but the specimen labels themselves may hint as to whom they belong. Does 
> anyone have any ideas as to who the rightful owner of these specimens 
> may be? The two boxes are of the same type/style, so they probably 
> belong to the same institution.
> 
> Box 1 contains 64 bumblebees collected by T. Paul Maslin in Vernon, BC, 
> on 12 August 1949.
> Box 2 contains 55 specimens collected by Hugo G. Rodeck in Dinosaur 
> National Monument (UT) in July 1948.
> 
> Thanks much for any light that you can shed on these.
> 
> Cheerio, colin
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> Colin Favret, Insect Collection Manager
> Illinois Natural History Survey
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> 
> 
> 

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