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.
Catalogue of Insects of Perkins Collection
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- Dates of Creation1907
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- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description1 volume
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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.
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Description compiled by Kees Rookmaaker, Archives Hub project archivist.
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