The Odonatological Legacy of George H. & Alice F. Beatty

George H. Beatty, III
(1923-2004)

Alice Ferguson Beatty
(1915 -1987)

Wedding of Alice and George Beatty, March 1956

Fourth Beatty Odonata Expedition to Mexico 1962

Converted School Bus used for Beatty Odonata Expedition to Mexico 1962

"El Salto,"

Preparing Specimens
Arroyo Tatocapan, 3 June 1962

Day’s Catch at Arroyo Tatocapan, Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, Mexico, 3 June 1962

A Progress Report on Odonata Collecting in Mexico 1957-1962 by G. H. & A. F. Beatty

Participants at First Meeting of
North American Odonatologists
Purdue University, March 1963

Beatty Odonata Field Notes for Mexico 1963 vs 1971

The Legacy

What Happened ~1971?

What Happened ~1971?

The Beatty Odonata Collection
in The Frost Entomological Museum
at the Pennsylvania State University

Steve Scott and David Owens, Executors of the Beatty Estate
K. C. Kim, Curator of the Penn State Frost Entomological Museum

A number of new species discovered by George Beatty have been described subsequently by others,
e.g. Gomphus apomyius Donnelly 1966

Notebooks containing collection numbers needed to associate papered specimens with locality and dates are now part of the Beatty Collection

Concerns of the Executors

What won’t be done?

Ideally, what needs to be done?

Slide 23

George Beatty’s Christmas Card 2003