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Tyrannosaurus rex in the Museum
The Hope Entomological Collections

This picture shows a variety of butterflies housed in one of the many cabinets in entomology.

The Hope Entomological Collections are second in size and importance to the national insect collection at the Natural History Museum, London. There are over three million insects and several thousand spiders in the collection, including at least 20,000 type specimens.

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Butterflies in the collection
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