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Show UNIVERSITY NOTES PINNED DOWN The University of Utah was invaded in-vaded last week by 500 beetles, moth and butterflies. The insects were welcomed with open exhibit cases by University Uni-versity entymologists, since they arrived neatly cased, cataloged, and mounted, a gift to the biology department by a former student, James Bruce Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who is now enty-moligist enty-moligist at the United States Naval Base in San Diego, collected collect-ed the insects over a period of several years. The butterflies, moths, and beetles beet-les were collected by the former Salt Laker all through the inter-mountain inter-mountain territory. His duplicates all mounted and identified, were then exchanged with collectors all over the world. Both professional profess-ional and amateur collectors exchanged ex-changed specimens with him. Many of the 1500 Insects have a catalog value of $3.00 apiece, but the real value of the collection according to University entymologists, entymol-ogists, is that Duncan collected series of insects within each species. spe-cies. The whole collection thus offers a good comparison among members of each family represented. represen-ted. All specimens are carefully and correctly identified, and the entire collection will be incorporated in the already large U of U collection collec-tion of lepidoptera, or butterflies. Many of the specimens are -of the large, showy, irridescent type of butterflies and moths, and of metalic-colored beetles. The collection col-lection will be used primarily for the study .of University students, and some specimens will be exhibited ex-hibited in the University Biology Museum. HOUSEPLANTS FOB FOOD Almost every intermountain home contains at least one of the broadleafed, easy-growing little vines known as a philedendron and a favorite indoor plant because be-cause it does not need sunlight for growth. A. H. Carter, University ofh Utah head gardner, knows something some-thing about the plant that most housewives do not. In Mr. Carter's native Australia, Austra-lia, where the plant grows wild, it is known as the "breadfruit," and its large, jucy fruits are gathered gath-ered for commercial comsump-tion. comsump-tion. "The breadfruit is really a' fruit salad," the horticulturalist explained. It looks like a pineapple, pineap-ple, and tastes like a mixture of many kinds of fruit and berries." Mr. Carter has raised some real "breadfruits" on the University of Utah greenhouse philadendrons. |