Post by jhyatt on Sept 23, 2019 18:04:22 GMT
I'm reading Christopher Othen's "Katanga 1960-1963" (History Press, UK, 2015). On p. 18 he discusses the abdication, in 1950, of King Leopold III in favor of his son Badouin,
saying that he "... passed the throne to his son Badouin and retreated into his hobby of entomology, spending his days netting rare insects in exotic places."
Does anyone know anything about Leopold's collection... what orders he collected, what region (The Congo of course is one's first guess), what became of his collection, was it very good? He
died in 1983, and Wikipedia says he was an anthropologist and entomologist, and that two reptile species are named for him.
Just curious....
JH
