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-)

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