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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 24, 2016 19:11:03 GMT
Yesterday I was very happy to be able to meet Paul K from the ICF who is visiting Chiang Mai from Bangkok for a few days with his wife, Malai. Today he sent me a photo of us in my collection room with Prasobsuk Sukkit who was also visiting me at the same time, which Paul asked me to post here. Prasobsuk Sukkit will be very familiar to many insect collectors, as quite a number of beetles and butterflies are named after him, but I suspect few people will have seen his photo. Paul also met Yutaka Inayoshi, a long time friend of mine who also lives in Chiang Mai and is author of the well known website on Indochinese butterflies at yutaka.it-n.jp/index.htmlWe all had a good time talking about and looking at butterflies, and today Inayoshi-san took Paul collecting at a locality outside of Chiang Mai, so he had a chance to swing his net too. Adam.
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Post by exoticimports on Aug 25, 2016 13:48:25 GMT
LOL Paul looks exactly like I'd envisioned!
Chuck
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Post by wollastoni on Aug 25, 2016 13:57:33 GMT
Look like you had a great day ! Good to see ICF members meeting all over the world ! Glad to put a face on Paul and Prasobsuk !
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Post by nomad on Aug 25, 2016 15:34:43 GMT
Nice meeting. I see you are a collector of West Brom shirts as well as Papilionidae.
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Post by Paul K on Aug 25, 2016 16:09:17 GMT
Yesterday I was very happy to be able to meet Paul K from the ICF who is visiting Chiang Mai from Bangkok for a few days with his wife, Malai. Today he sent me a photo of us in my collection room with Prasobsuk Sukkit who was also visiting me at the same time, which Paul asked me to post here. Prasobsuk Sukkit will be very familiar to many insect collectors, as quite a number of beetles and butterflies are named after him, but I suspect few people will have seen his photo. Paul also met Yutaka Inayoshi, a long time friend of mine who also lives in Chiang Mai and is author of the well known website on Indochinese butterflies at yutaka.it-n.jp/index.htmlWe all had a good time talking about and looking at butterflies, and today Inayoshi-san took Paul collecting at a locality outside of Chiang Mai, so he had a chance to swing his net too. Adam. I was also very happy to meet great entomologists and at the same time very friendly and welcoming people. We had very good time tailking about butterflies and many other things too. It was very nice to have the chance to look at Adam's Papilionidae collection. It is breathtaking with its size and very well organized. I look forward to come back again to Chiang Mai in the future as I really enjoy the company of my new friends. Paul
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 25, 2016 19:57:18 GMT
I see you are a collector of West Brom shirts as well as Papilionidae. Yes, all of them are signed too, some by individual players some by that season's squad. A friend of someone inside the club used to get them for me. Sadly he is no longer with us. You have sharp eyes, Peter, no wonder you can spot Lycaenids in bushes on Salisbury Plain among other places. Adam.
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Post by jhyatt on Aug 25, 2016 21:58:30 GMT
Adam,
If all those plastic boxes atop your cabinets hold what I think they do, it's a bit of a relief to know that there are people who face a bigger backlog of material to spread that I have!
Cheers, John
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 26, 2016 16:42:30 GMT
Spreading will keep me busy for many years to come. Here is a photo of most of my papered collection which is organised by areas and kept on two sides of a corner of my bookshelves: Mostly I spread material as I study a particular group, but I also can't resist spreading some special goodies after they arrive. Adam.
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Post by nomad on Aug 26, 2016 17:16:34 GMT
Just amazing
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Post by deliasfanatic on Aug 26, 2016 17:53:14 GMT
Spreading will keep me busy for many years to come. Here is a photo of most of my papered collection which is organised by areas and kept on two sides of a corner of my bookshelves: Mostly I spread material as I study a particular group, but I also can't resist spreading some special goodies after they arrive. Adam. You're even worse than I am.....I think!
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Post by jhyatt on Aug 26, 2016 21:15:59 GMT
My stash doesn't photograph as well as Adam's - it fills a chest freezer, plus the stacks of wooden storeboxes on top of some cabinets. And then there are all those field-pinned little moths in Schmitt (or is it Schmidt? And who was he, anyway?) boxes...
My idea was to put away enough papered material to keep me busy when I get too old to do any more field work, but the old knees are still holding up fairly well, and I sometimes wonder if I've stored too much papered material. A lot of it is skippers and Lycaenids, and I fear the eyes may fail me before the net does. And specimens in papers donated to museums seem to sit around for decades (if not centuries) awaiting preparation.
Sort of a nice problem to have, actually!
Cheers, jh
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 27, 2016 13:39:18 GMT
"You're even worse than I am.....I think!" I guess that depends on your definition of 'worse' At least mine are Papilionidae, I can't imagine John Hyatt spreading Hesperiidae and Lycaenidae when he finally hangs up his net for the last time aged 80+. Adam.
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Post by jhyatt on Aug 27, 2016 13:47:57 GMT
I can imagine doing it, Adam - but but my imagination does tend to run away from me a lot!
The problem of course is having to admit at some point that the time has come to stop getting in new material and start working full-time on the papered material. That's quite a hurdle to get over, mentally. I guess this is why museums accumulate rooms full of old papered material.
jh
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 27, 2016 16:45:45 GMT
The problem is the museums would have to pay someone to spread them, and they just don't have budgets for such mundane jobs. On my last visit to BMNH I found papered donated paratypes of taxa they didn't have just pinned in the relevant draws still in the envelopes. At least they are visible, even if they can't actually be examined properly, better than hidden in a room full of boxes of papered material. I suspect that the BMNH papered specimens store must be huge.
Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 27, 2016 16:49:00 GMT
On the original subject, the visit of Paul K; he went to Wang Chin, Phrae today to stay at Punjen Hideaway for a week. After the end of his trip hopefully he will be able to let us all know about the interesting specimens he caught both in Chiang Mai and Phrae.
Adam.
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