The library has a display of butterfly information, photographs and examples which will remain in the case through the summer.

The older method of capturing specimens done by Natural History Museums and individulas has now been replaced by photographs. Both are shown here. The specimens with identifications are from the collection of Marilyn Ogolo and her sister. Pictures of some of the so-called Cabinents of Curiosities comes from the Natural History Museum in the book, The Rarest of the Rare : stories behind the treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History by Nancy Pick.

Also shown are examples of Vladimir Nabokov's genitalia cabinet. Nabokov, the great Russina born writer was also an accomplished taxonomist, working at Harvard from 1942-1948. The book Nabakov's Blues : the scientific odyssey of a literary genius by Kurt Johnson details the Nakokov's scientific life.  A recent writer of butterfly information is Robert Michael Pyle, whose book Handbook For Butterfly Watchers, speakes to the specimen collection debate and narrates the extinction of the "Xerces Blue",  (Glaucopsyche xerces),  the first U.S species known to have become extinct due to human disturbance. The French naturalist and physician Jean Alphone Boisduval named the species for the Perisan king, Xerxes, using the French spelling. It is now the namesake of an international organization dedicated to the conservation of invertebrates.