I have just finished the Wollaston Collection. I rock. To put this into some sort of context (and because its wonderfully geeky) I have produced the following stats:
Within the collection there are 500 seperate genera
The total number of species within these genera is 1799
Each species has an average of 8 specimens (7.81 rounded up)
Which gives an overall total number of specimens of 14034
Each of these specimens has been cleaned, re-pinned if needed, re-staged and had two labels added to it, one of which is specific to the color coding of the specimen. Everything has been databased. All labels where produced by me and have the name of the species, the author, date of publication and reference if it was a species described by Wollaston. It has taken me about 15 months to complete this project.
And now I'm going out for milkshake.
About Me
- Tekgirl
- Oxford, United Kingdom
- Am I an entomological knitter or a knitting entomologist? Who knows, but either way the two main things in my life are knitting and insects. I can throw in a husband, two cats and a bunch of other things related to crafty goodness in on top of that but you've covered the basics in two words. If you want to get more technical then I guess I'd describe myself more as a collections manager than a taxonomist and I love all things museum/library/botanical gardens based. I'm one of lifes catagorisers- even from an early age I would arrange things in size or colour order and now I do it for a living. Just on a much larger scale.
Crane Count
0050
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