Waller, Horace, 1833-1896. Butterflies collected in the Shire Valley, East Africa
Object Details
- General note
- Prints created by pressing or scraping the scales from butterfly wings onto slips of paper, with outlines and some hand-coloring added later. The paper slips are mounted on leaves of brown paper compiled into an album. It appears that two mounted prints may have been removed from one of the leaves, which show traces of adhesive
- Collection Creator
- Train, Russell E., 1920-2012
- Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian. Libraries)
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- Russell E. Train Africana collection
- Russell E. Train Africana collection / Series 5: Manuscripts
- Extent
- 1 Volume (15 x 30 cm, in box 19 x 33 cm)
- Date
- circa 1861 - 1862
- Container
- Item M079
- Archival Repository
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Archival materials
- Volumes
- Collection Rights
- The collection is housed in the Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History, which is open to researchers Monday through Friday in the afternoons, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.; morning visits are by appointment only. Please call (202) 633-1184 or email AskaLibrarian@si.edu for an appointment.
- Scope and Contents note
- Album of 66 nature prints made from 39 butterfly specimens collected by Horace Waller while on a missionary expedition in the Shire Valley region of East Africa.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510890585-1503510890704-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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