Central Department

The Library and Collection of Insects:

In the library the literature has been collected from the time of the founding of the Institute in 1894. Already in 1898 the fund amounted to about 4,000, mostly in German and Italian. Today the library has about 5,000 titles of books in German, Italian, Russian, French and Croatian, 250 titles of scientific journals with about 20,000 bits (one in an uninterrupted series of 35 years and over), about 15 reference collections with about 300 volumes, statistical materials since 1926 to date, projects and reprints. Among the titles that are now on the shelves with publications on contemporary developments in the biotechnological sciences there is a number of very precious and rare specimens of which some are in manuscript, and most of them dating from the second half of the 19 century. The oldest book dates back to the distant 1760.

The Institute keeps also part of the rich and valuable collection of insects of Peter Novak, entomologist and collector and one of the pioneers of studying entomopfauna of Dalmatia. The collection includes insects of orders: Homoptera, Heteroptera and Coleoptera. Some examples date from the late 19th century.