The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil (Exhibition)

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Exist Dates

1904 - 1904

Biographical or Historical Note

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Exhibition. Open in 1904. Located on Floor 1, on the ground floor near the entrance in the American Museum of Natural History. The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil featured cotton-boll weevil and cotton boll specimens and addressed the contemporary crisis about the damage caused by the insect to cotton crops in the Cotton Belt of the Southern United States.

Summary

The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil featured cotton-boll weevil and cotton boll specimens and addressed the contemporary crisis about the damage caused by the insect to cotton crops in the Cotton Belt of the Southern United States. The exhibition is one of the earliest documented special exhibitions in the Museum and was held immediately inside the Museum's main entrance (1, p. 17).

The exhibition included (1, p. 17):

*Specimens of cotton-boll weevils at different stages of growth

*Specimens of affected and unaffected cotton bolls

*Mexico to cotton areas of Texas

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

    (1) American Museum of Natural History. "The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil." American Museum Journal 4, (1904): 17.

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Related Resources

The American Museum journal.
American Museum of Natural History. "The Mexican Cotton-Boll Weevil." American Museum Journal 4, (1904): 17.
American Museum of Natural History Special Collections photograph drawers
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [Black and white photo prints of exhibition cases]
American Museum of Natural History Special Collections vertical files
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [American Museum Journal article]

Written by: Clare O'Dowd
Last modified: 2019 February 6


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