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

[Carol Spencer]

Hi Chris
You should be able to put this together somewhat through the numbers of
specimens listed on VertNet or on GBIF (or at various museum's websites,
and realize some museums don't have every collection at their institution
up yet on VN):  https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__portal.vertnet.org_publishers&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=cAvNhbvDRbOzTDWcLxXH-JAW7N15TkcbKzO04njNX6s&s=KJPhr3yU_4qUovB8_PLvuMnSwz2ZNHvD_0RGcnz0_kI&e= 

My recollection for US Herps (which is not nec. the same for all
collections) is this, based on numbers of specimens for herps listed on
their websites or on VN:
1) USNM - 566K
2) AMNH  > 335K
3)  KU- 335K (334,913)
4) MCZ - 324K
5) CAS- 310K
6) FMNH-285K
7) MVZ - 270K
8) UMMZ - 197K

I apologize if I missed anyone in that ranking!
You'll have to add up all the rest of the collections at these places to
get the full picture.

Cheers
Carol






On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:50 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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-- 
Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.
Staff Curator of Herpetology & Researcher
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3160
atrox10 at gmail.com  and  atrox at berkeley.edu
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