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

[Derek Sikes]

I'll reiterate Karsten's point - lots of people in this email train have
used the term 'specimens' when they should have used 'records' (ie
specimens/lots) because like the MCZ, these numbers are rarely identical.

The University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection has 1,175,392 specimens
databased as 215,693 records (and an unknown number of undatabased
specimens).

-Derek



On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Hartel, Karsten <hartel at oeb.harvard.edu>
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>  I would suggest that any ranking of US or international museums is an
> enormous job fraught with lots of interpretations or misinterpretations of
> any of the information that might be analyzed.  Interpretations of cross
> discipline data from within museums and between museums would be a very
> difficult task.  As a simple example how does one verify or compare the
> value of lot based collections verses individual specimen based.  Note that
> the total number of MCZ ichthyology specimens is often represented on line
> as number of lots (171,600) when actual specimens total 1.4 million.
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