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The Spencer Entomological Collection | history | volunteer | people | founder | contact | links
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History
The Collection was begun in the 1920’s by G.J. Spencer. When he joined the university in 1924, the now-extensive Collection consisted
of “less than a handful” of unlabelled specimens. He was a dedicated collector, and devoted much time and energy to building up a representative
collection of BC insects. By the time he left the university, the Collection had grown to more than 300,000 mounted and labelled specimens through
his collecting and through acquisition of other collections.
The Collection was officially founded in 1953, as a retirement gift from his students and the Department of Zoology at UBC. Dr. G.G.E. Scudder took
over care of the Collection from Dr. Spencer in 1958 and served as its director for more than 40 years. Over the years more private collections
have been incorporated, specimens have been collected by researchers, and the Collection has grown to its present size of more than 600,000
specimens, the second largest entomological collection in Canada.
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