NATURALIST DIES
LARGE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION SPECIMENS TOTAL U MILLIONS. 'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 12. Mr Ja mes John Joicey, who lias just died, was the possessor of the second largest private collection of butterflies in the world, reported to number one and a-lialf millions. He had been spending from seven thousand to.ton thousand sterling annually on the collection, having agents in all parts oi the world. The collection was possible because he was the soil of a millionaire but his bobby once brought Mr Joicey into the Bankruptcy Court, where lie stated lie was unable to live on twenty thousand a year. He started bis hobby forty years ago. It is expected that the collection will be bequeathed to the nation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1932, Page 6
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