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

[H.J. Walker]

Similar to that train of thought, our Pelagic Invertebrate Collection at 
SIO houses over 200,000,000 specimens in over 135,000 catalogued, whole 
zooplankton samples.

Cheers,
H.J.


On 1/29/15 7:46 PM, Derek Sikes wrote:
> 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 <mailto:hartel at oeb.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     My two cents.
>
>     Karsten
>
>     *Karsten Edward Hartel*
>
>     Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology
>
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>
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