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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 5194666, member: 77704&quot;]I think private collections are &quot;much&quot; better cared for. Museum collections are often destroyed in time of War/ looted,like in post Hussein Iraq/ or they go MIA due to corrupt museum curators. We here on CT do a much better job of showing our treasures then any museum.</p><p>I used to also collect insects (papiliondae/ saturnidae). Here again, big government destroyed the hobby. Entomologists hated the prospect of private collections, they maintained we where not scientists, so had no right to have own specimens. Then the CITES do gooders made it impossible to buy certain specimens. When I was&nbsp; at the Paris insect show, we decided to see the national French insect collection. We where told it was restricted to&nbsp; &quot;only&quot; those that had degrees in entomology/ in other words, &quot;no amateurs allowed&quot; Yet I knew 10 times more then any of these professionals. Plus my specimens where all perfect AL quality, had precise[ATTACH=full]1214385[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214386[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214387[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214388[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1214389[/ATTACH] data labels. The BNHM specimens look rather ratty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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