John Reeves in China with Judith Magee

In this video Judith Magee, Museum curator of rare books, manuscripts and artwork, introduces John Reeves and his collection. John Reeves was a man with a passion for natural history who spent nearly 20 years in China working as a tea inspector. While there, he employed locals to collect and record plants and animals from China and Asia. The John Reeves collection is an enormous contribution to the study of natural history.