Photo impressions from London, 2001(The Department of Entomology)
Construction of the Entomology Block started in 1934, but the building was fully occupied in 1954. A recent estimate suggests there are some 8,712,000 lepidopteran specimens (in 75,000 drawers), a total that includes 125,000 types.
Here the butterfly collection occupies several floors and is usually housed in standard 20-drawer cabinets (Main Collection) and units of a 40-drawer cabinet as a base with a 26-drawer cabinet placed above (Rothschild Collection), on the Basement Floor alongside the useful ‘butterfly’ library.
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