{"id":256439,"date":"2018-10-18T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=256439"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T01:45:17","slug":"the-rockefeller-beetles-explores-the-beauty-of-a-major-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/10\/the-rockefeller-beetles-explores-the-beauty-of-a-major-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The beetles have landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-fullscreen has-overlay\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/arts-humanities\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tArts &amp; Culture\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tThe beetles have landed\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Family Buprestidae, Species Chrysochroa fulminans beetles\" height=\"1667\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/101618_Rockefeller_Beetles_005_2500.jpg\" width=\"2500\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--caption\">Family Buprestidae, Species Chrysochroa fulminans. <\/p><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Stephanie Mitchell\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2018-10-18\">\n\t\t\tOctober 18, 2018\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t2 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\t\u2018The Rockefeller Beetles\u2019 exhibit explores a lifelong passion\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t<p>Over the span of 90 years, banker and philanthropist <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2017\/03\/david-rockefeller-generous-benefactor-to-harvard-former-overseer-dies-at-101\/\">David Rockefeller<\/a> collected beetles from around the world, eventually building a personal collection of more than 150,000 specimens.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, his longstanding support for the Entomology Department of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) culminated in a gift to the museum of this extraordinary collection.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Museum of Natural History celebrates this monumental gift with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hmnh.harvard.edu\/rockefeller-beetles\">The Rockefeller Beetles,\u201d<\/a> a new exhibit that features hundreds of the specimens and recounts the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter  size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/101618_Rockefeller_Beetles_241_2500_V-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/101618_Rockefeller_Beetles_241_2500_V-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/101618_Rockefeller_Beetles_241_2500_V-scaled.jpg?resize=100,150 100w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/101618_Rockefeller_Beetles_241_2500_V-scaled.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, 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Stephanie Mitchell\/Harvard Staff Photographer\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\n\t\r\n\n<p>It was a summer tutor who encouraged Rockefeller in that area in 1925, and he began collecting a wide variety of insects. He eventually focused on beetles, and spent a lifetime exploring their extraordinary diversity, said MCZ\u2019s entomology curator Brian Farrell, who traced Rockefeller\u2019s collecting career.<\/p>\n<p>One out of every four animal species on the planet is a beetle, an abundance likely tied to their association with flowering plants, Farrell said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2017\/11\/a-passion-for-nature-in-a-massive-beetle-collection\/\">2017 Gazette interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collection is superb, worldwide, and the biggest collection ever donated to Harvard University\u2019s Museum of Comparative Zoology as far as we know,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Rockefeller Beetles\u201d opens Saturday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will be ongoing. <a href=\"https:\/\/hmnh.harvard.edu\/event\/david-rockefeller-beetle-collection\">See the related 2017 free public lecture by Brian D. Farrell with an introduction by Harvard Professor Emeritus Edward O. 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