Butterflies in a Luxury Hotel where I stayed during my last trip to London - Giuseppe Alletto travel
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Butterflies in a Luxury Hotel where I stayed during my last trip to London - Giuseppe Alletto art and travel
They journeyed thousands of miles in cramped boats to discover new plants and animals, were astounded by their first glimpse of a pineapple, and even helped introduce the British public to chocolate.
Explorers, doctors and scientists of the seventeenth century were brave, competitive and curious, and their desire for knowledge took them far across the planet for months at a time.
They are responsible for the oldest collection of butterflies still in existence, now stored in the Museum.
A pressed and dried male orange tip butterfly specimen
A male orange tip butterfly specimen butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines, from the collections of Adam Buddle, an English cleric and botanist.
Between them these men amassed thousands of objects, including butterflies and plants acquired i