D36/D - Lepidoptera Research - 1950-1998
The bulk of the material is correspondence, data and other papers found in Clarke's own folders, the titles of which have been reproduced in the catalogue entries. At D36/D.34-D.42 are permits to collect and licenses for the export and import of butterflies and other material.
| Archive level description: | Sub-series |
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| Physical Description: | 42 folders |
| Summary: | The bulk of the material is correspondence, data and other papers found in Clarke's own folders, the titles of which have been reproduced in the catalogue entries. At D36/D.34-D.42 are permits to collect and licenses for the export and import of butterflies and other material. |
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| Date: | 1950-1998 |
| Reference Number: | D36/D |
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Clarke's interest in butterflies dated from his childhood in Leicestershire. It was reawakened during his time in Australia at the end of the Second World War and he continued to pursue it back in England. In the late 1940s he developed a 'hand-pairing' technique of mating Papilio butterflies that made it possible to begin a range of genetic investigations of butterflies. |