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

[Carol Spencer]

And one update, UMMZ says this: 195,469 (through catalogue number UMMZ
240,000) catalogued lots representing 431,316 individual specimens

so that puts them in second!

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Carol Spencer <atrox10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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=A6oOc9q8Cdc7hAEddUI0J1DtjGxTzxcVG4TZYS2bZt4&s=lyzK8FxyIe0tENvZpyG-d5WaK2KdQNlQM0dlvAMFMyQ&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
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> 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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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
510-643-5778 /FAX: 510-643-8238

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