Entomological Collection
of the
Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

compiled by
Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)

  

This is the beginnings of a set of web pages aimed at providing eventually an online catalogue of the specimens in the Entomological Collection of the Macleay Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum. It is going to take a long time to make it comprehensive, but we have to start somewhere, so here goes.

The collection includes specimens from the collections of the Macleay family, and also:

  • John Abbot,
  • Jack Walter Trench Armstrong,
  • Richard Vratislav Bejsak,
  • Reverend Thomas Blackburn,
  • Charles Darwin,
  • Frederick Parkhurst Dodd,
  • Edward Donovan,
  • Dru Drury,
  • Kathleen English,
  • Runar Forsius,
  • John Francillon,
  • Walter Wilson Froggatt,
  • Alexandrè Arsène Girault,
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  • George Hangay,
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug,
  • Pierre Andre Latreille,
  • William Elford Leach,
  • Ian Murray Mackerras,
  • Alexander John Nicholson,
  • Titian Ramsay Peale,
  • Keith Eric Wellesley Salter,
  • Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,
  • Allen Sundholm,
  • William Swainson,
  • Douglas Frew Waterhouse,
  • Gustavus Athol Waterhouse, and
  • John Obadiah Westwood.
    • The pinned specimens in the collection include representatives from :

    CLASS
    drawers
      55x40 cms average
    Arachnida   2
    Chilopoda   1
    Crustacea   1
    Diplopoda   1
    Insecta   1108
    Monopoda   1

    The specimens in spirit in the collection include :

    CLASS/ORDER
    specimens in spirit
    approx. number
    Arachnida   1000
    Insecta : Diptera (larvae)   500
    Insecta : Lepidoptera (larvae)   100

    Also featured are:
  • Specimens in the collection from New Guinea
  • Australian Lepidoptera parasitoids
  • Some Type specimens in the collection


    • Australian
    Australian Butterflies
    butterflies
    Australian
    home
    caterpillars
    Australian
    Australian Moths
    moths

    (updated 19 April 2006, 17 March 2013)