<p dir="ltr">You guys are the most helpful people. So, just for guidance, this is not very important in terms of the effort I'm willing to spend on it. Fairly ballpark estimates are totally okay. I think it'll just be a sidebar for a Nature article. I was trying to crowdsource it from all of you since you'd also be the ones to tell me if I get it wildly wrong. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 27, 2015 4:55 PM, "Carol Spencer" <<a href="mailto:atrox10@gmail.com">atrox10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Chris<div>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): <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__portal.vertnet.org_publishers&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=EJWjHmN0IKHkyzf9cBNmk9Qv-cub-QhhMWW2c-q36Ek&s=po-3Tde6WK3WSTbtYTC-Vy6gdWst5fPntfDJGwAWZbM&e=" target="_blank">http://portal.vertnet.org/publishers</a></div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div>1) USNM - 566K</div><div>2) AMNH > 335K<br></div><div>3) KU- 335K (334,913)</div><div>4) MCZ - 324K</div><div>5) CAS- 310K</div><div>6) FMNH-285K</div><div>7) MVZ - 270K</div><div>8) UMMZ - 197K<br></div><div><br></div><div>I apologize if I missed anyone in that ranking!</div><div>You'll have to add up all the rest of the collections at these places to get the full picture.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Carol</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Kemp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjkemp@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjkemp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please post this to the listserv<br><br></div>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 <a href="mailto:cjkemp@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjkemp@gmail.com</a>, or respond on the listserv. Thanks in advance! -- ck<br clear="all"></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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