CANTERBURY MUSEUM,
(Per United Prkss Association.) CIIRISTCHURCIf, December 17. Tho Canterbury Museum has just been enriched by the acquisition of the lato Mr C. N. Wakefield's comprehensive collection of New Zealand insccM, presented (to t.ho institution by hi.s widow. The collection is rather for study than for general exhibition, hut it is boiled to show it for a week, after which time tlx- cases will have to lie covered from tho in order to prevent tho deterioration of the insects' colouring. Thereafter the specimens may bo viewed by students on application to the curator. It is intended to keep the collection .separate and to name it "The Wakefield Collection."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14089, 18 December 1907, Page 5
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109CANTERBURY MUSEUM, Otago Daily Times, Issue 14089, 18 December 1907, Page 5
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