GIFTS TO MUSEUM
Two Aquatic Collections
Two New Zealand authorities on special types of insects have given their entire collections to the Canterbury Museum. Together, the collections of May-flies, stoneflies, and caddis-flies contain far more and varied specimens of the three orders than there are in all other collections in New Zealand combined. The scientists are Mr J. G. Penniket, New Zealand authority on May-flies, dragonflies. and stone-flies, and Mr A. G. McFarlane, New Zealand authority on caddis-flies. They are research officer and technical assistant respectively in the museum’s entomology department. In addition, the department has been given extensive collections of freshwater invertebrates by the Marine Department from its fisheries laboratory in Wellington. “The number of specimens involved probably amounts to something like one or two million,” said Mr Penniket’s report to the Museum Trust Board. “These represent thousands of man-hours of collecting, and will be of incalculable value in the research programme.” The entomology department’s aquatic research programme is mainly financed by grants from the Golden Kiwi ! Lottery Fund. The board I was told that a second grant I of £3OOO had been received.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 20
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185GIFTS TO MUSEUM Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30733, 24 April 1965, Page 20
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