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Description: | Salt Herbarium of the 1790s, Gatty/Eden seaweeds of mid 19th century of taxonomic importance and the JS Herbarium
Osteology collection about 2,000 items of skeletons and bones with a good bird collection for the region
local insects, freshwater invertebrates., British Leidoptera, H C Sorby's marine invertebrates, and marine shells.
Notable are historic collections including Henry Seebohm birds, Arthur Whitaker's bats and birds'' eggs, J B Wheat's eggs and Prfo. C J Patten's bird sjkins.
Half the total for the botany, zoology and geology collection is local South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire; voucher specimens still important.
Botanical collection is small, as never been a botanist on the staff, of about 8,000 specimens and almost all material is not modern including Salt Herbarium of the 1790s, Gatty/Eden seaweeds of mid 19th century and the JS Herbarium.
Osteology collection about 2,000 items of skeletons and bones with a good bird collection for the region.
More than half the collections are invertebrates numbering about 90,000 especially local insects, freshwater inverts., British Leidoptera, H C Sorby's marine inverts., and marine shells. British Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera and Small orders are good for reference.
Vertebrate collection is mounted animals, study skins, freeze-dried specimens, deep frozen, wet -preserved, casts and eggs numberijgn about 6,000 in total.
Most are European, but also African, Indian and Australasian birds and mammals. Since 1960 most are local. Notable are historic collections including Henry Seebohm birds, Arthur Whitaker's bats and birds'' eggs, J B Wheat's eggs and Prfo. C J Patten's bird sjkins. | Subjects: | Biology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0114 278 2660 | Telephone: | 0114 278 2600 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:941 | Go to resource |
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