Butterfly
This butterfly is part of Major AB Gay’s collection and was collected somewhere along the Upper Uelle River in Congo. Major Gay was a curator at the Museum and spent much of his time organising the butterfly collections by continent and taxonomy.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/2003/1262
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- Central Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Gay, Major Arthur Bertie (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
- Period Classification
- Modern (1900-)