Records of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Anthropod Diversity

In 1891 Clarence P. Gillette, an internationally recognized entomologist, established an insect collection in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) to aid the institution’s mission of teaching, research, and extension. The C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity currently houses more than 3.5 million specimens and is considered to be the 14th largest insect collection affiliated with a university in the United States. This collection includes seven of the museum's accession ledgers dating from the 1890s through 1905. Six ledgers are available online in the Libraries' digital repository, Mountain Scholar.