[Nhcoll-l] natural history collections query

[Doug Yanega]

On 2/14/19 10:46 AM, Anna Thanukos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm an educator at the University of California Museum of 
> Paleontology.  For a grant we are submitting, I'm trying to come up 
> with an estimate of the number of natural history collections there 
> are in the United States (a bonus would be estimating how many of 
> these lack significant public spaces and are mainly for scientific use).
>
> Any thoughts or rough estimates you have would be helpful.
>
This may prove helpful:

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/codens-inst.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herbaria_in_North_America

The ones with public spaces should be fairly easy to recognize, and it's 
a safe assumption that most of the rest are strictly for research. Yes, 
there will be a lot of overlap, but many of these institutions won't 
have holdings of things like dinosaurs, etc. and won't show up in 
routine searches for "natural history".

Peace,


Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
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