[Nhcoll-l] Ranking of largest collections -- HELP

[Christopher Kemp]

He's at Cal Acad, right?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Singer,Randal Anthony <
rsinger at flmnh.ufl.edu> wrote:

>  Mark Sabaj might be a good contact for this. He made a list of all
> collections for ASIH. I'm sure in the process he got total specimen values
> as well.
>
> Randy
> On Jan 27, 2015 3:51 PM, Christopher Kemp <cjkemp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Please post this to the listserv
>
>  Hi again all, I was really impressed and excited by the feedback for my
> project collecting examples of newly-described species with long shelf
> lives. It was great! (But keep them coming too.) I had another question. I
> don't know if this is empirically known or somewhat debatable, but I'm
> trying to make a list of the top 5 natural history collections in the US,
> and in the world. So, two lists. And I mean in terms of size, or number of
> specimens. Please weigh in. I'm assuming NMNH, AMNH, the Field for the US,
> but who's next? And in the world, I just don't know: the NMNH, the BMNH,
> the AMNH? I don't know. Share your thoughts. I'm at cjkemp at gmail.com, or
> respond on the listserv. Thanks in advance! -- ck
>
>


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