| Description | There are two types of index: card index and 4 small index folders.
The card index (formerly 10 metal drawers situated above two filing cabinets in the Compactor Room) is on Bay 11 Shelf 1. The small index folders (formerly above the card index) are on Bay 4 Shelf 3.
The card index covers both photographs and slides, and the drawers are organised according to subject matter as follows:
1. Insect collecting, equipment, meteorology, Animals: Protozoa-Diplopoda.
2. Animals: Insecta: General-Diptera.
3. Animals: Insecta: Hemiptera-Isoptera.
4. Animals: Insecta: Lepidoptera-Odonata.
5. Animals: Insecta: Orthoptera A-L.
6. Animals: Insecta: Orthoptera M-Z -Zoraptera.
7. Animals: Mollusca-Vertebrata.
8. Plants.
9. Geographical location, events.
10. Organisations, personalities.
The 4 small index folders list photographs sequentially according to a code number from 1-6876.
The index cards record the following information: code no.; subject matter; type of image; photographer; ack.(?). The index cards also have a photocopy of the image attached.
The small index folders record the following information: code no.; locust species (if relevant); subject; ack. to neg. (?); class. |