In our ongoing process of cleaning out the research collection space we’ve run into some really crazy things: unusual collecting gear, vials of gigantic arthropods, pieces of old museum exhibits, a huge cabinet full of Riker mounts, etc. It’s been an even mix of exhilarating and mundane. There was this locked storage cabinet in the corner, though, that’s been eating away at us. What mysteries did it contain?! Will it be the huge stash of unit trays and pins that we so desperately need? Or will we get Geraldo’d? Alas, that day finally came, as we found the key hiding in plain sight.
The contents: seven boxes of Stuart Frost’s correspondence, manuscripts, Pennsylvania species records, drawings, photographs, plus a few other boxes of scanning electron micrographs and miscellaneous papers. Yah, pretty much a bonanza of cool, historic, entomological artifacts and data. We’ll have to make time to properly document these objects (and maybe build a virtual exhibition?). In the meantime here’s a taste –
We have hundreds (if not >1000) of photographs, the vast majority of which are entomologically interesting. Stay tuned!