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Description: | An extensive collection of over 260,000 specimens, one of the largest parts being the Mollusca, with representatives of all the major groups of British and foreign molluscs including freshwater, marine and terrestrial species. There is a collection of 3500 microscope slides and over 15,000 mounted birds, eggs, feathers and nests. Most British species are represented and there are a few foreign rare and extinct species notably birds of New Zealand. The collection of bone material is largely made up of foreign mammals, notably marsupials. The only complete skeletons are of small British mammals. This figure includes a collection of African animal bones. There is a small assorted collection of British and foreign mammals (including game heads), reptiles and fishes (British freshwater and foreign marine) and invertebrates such as foreign corals along with echinoderms, spiders, scorpions, crabs and lobsters. Insects account for 75,000 specimens and present a complete collection of British butterflies and moths as well as comprehensive collections, including foreign examples of beetles and flies. The large botany collection contains an important herbarium, as well as seeds, nuts, galls, lichens, mosses and woods of British and foreign origin. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | 78 High Street
Haslemere
Surrey,
GU27 2LA | FAX: | 01428 645234 | Telephone: | 01428 642112 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5711 | Go to resource |
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