History & Culture/Museums

Picture of the Week: Livingstone’s Beetles

David Livingstone collected beetles, I presume? That’s the question curator Max Barclay pondered recently when he stumbled upon a box containing beetles, some of which bore tags with the famous Scottish explorer’s name, at London’s Natural History Museum. The specimens are evidence that Livingstone concertedly collected beetles during his six-year journey along the Zambezi River […]

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