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The Museums British butterfly reference collection - Click on image to Go Back
The Museum holds a small, but nevertheless important collection of British Butterflies. It is mainly made up of specimens collected in the heydays of 'the Natural History collecting mania' of the Victorian and Edwardian times. The main part of the collection came from Carleton Rea, a local expert in Flora and Fauna, who presented three large cabinets of Lepidoptera sometime around 1945. Other collectors of note include A. Ford and J. E. Fletcher of Hallow.

The collection was increased in 1970 when the Museum agreed to take the insect collection housed at Malvern Library. These were originally given to the Library by the Malvern Field Club in 1934. Most of the specimens had been collected by the Reverend Day and Mr Walter Sanders.
 
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