<div dir="auto">Hey there, <div><br></div><div>we also have a collection of protozoa, most of them are radiolaria, collected by haeckel around 150 years ago. </div><div><br></div><div>A bunch of them are from the challenger expedition in 1872, which haeckel got to determine - lot of them went back to London nhm. </div><div><br></div><div>Most of them are also in the Form of slides. Others like foraminifera, are also in slides or in little glass chambers. </div><div><br></div><div>All the best, </div><div>Bernd </div></div><div style="line-height:1.5"><br><br>-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------<br>Von: "Collins, Allen" <COLLINSA@si.edu><br>Datum: Do., 15. Apr. 2021, 20:39<br>An: nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>Betreff: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Protozoa collection<br><blockquote><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
We have such a collection under the name “Protozoa” in the collections at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (Department of Invertebrate Zoology). Most of the specimens in this collection are in the form of slides. 
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<div>We have about 4,400 specimens in this collection, and some date back more than 100 years ago.</div>
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Is there any protozoa collections in natural history museums?</div>
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When those collections started to grow?</div>
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What are the methodology for preserving protozoa?</div>
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