NOTES ON SOME SUFFOLK MOTHS, 2002
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Suffolk in Norwich One of the questions often asked by Suffolk entomologists in my youth was “Where are the Bishop’s Moths?” They were not in Ipswich, Bury, Cambridge or South Kensington. An article by Tony Irwin in Antenna explains that Bishop Whittingham’s collections were left to Norwich Castle Museum in 1941, together with “an immense bundle of letters from scores of entomologists.” The same article clarifies the reference made in the obituary for Ernest Charles Bedwell (Trans. Suffolk Nat. Soc., 5: xcviii), in which Claude Morley seems to be saying that Bedwell’s collection was limited to Hemiptera. In fact. Tony Irwin states that Bedwell’s “probably unsurpassed” collection, which he left to Norwich, included both Coleoptera and Hemiptera. “All the collections and manuscript material are available for research.” Alasdair Aston Wake’s Cottage, Selborne, Hampshire GU34 3JH
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