Saturday 18th June 2011

VISIT TO THE UK - ONGOING PREPARATIONS: Ongoing preparations for the journey are coming on fast. Recently I travelled to the UK to obtain more background material for the journey. This involved a visit to the Royal Entomological Society library, where I photographed the journals of G C Champion's brother-in-law J J Walker. 

This was followed by a visit to the Natural History Museum, in London, where the original letters from GCC in Central America to his employers, Godman and Salvin, are now kept. 

Finally, I visited the Oxford Museum of Natural History, where I was shown around the collections by Curator James Hogan. Many specimens obtained by G C Champion and J J Walker are housed in this museum's extensive collections.