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Description: | The present extensive biology collections have been developed from the museum's original collections over 150 years.
The collections contain:
A wide range of animal and plant material with smaller amounts of material from other groups, i.e taxonomic coverage of vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns), limited coverage of non-vascular plants (mosses, liverworks, lichens, algae), taxonomic coverage of invertebrates (sponges, corals, echinoderms, arachnids, crustacea, centipedes, millipedes, insects, molluscs), taxonomic coverage of vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals).
An extensive local study collection taken between the 18th century and the present day, which represents a unique record of past and present biodiversity in the City of Leicester and the County of Leicestershire.
A comprehensive UK reference collection.
Taxidermy mounts and study skins, spirit and dried preparations.
Important elements of the collection are:
Many zoology collections contain cited specimens, these include mammals, birds, molluscs, butterfliesand moths, beetles, ants, stoneflies, bumblebees, millipedes, centipedes, woodlice.
The lower plant collection contain voucher materail for published Leicestershire County species lists.
The flowering plant and ferns collections contain voucher material for publishes Leicestershire County flora from 1850 onwards, also the Chester and Druce Herbaria containing voucher material for the published floras of Northamptonshire.
The vertebrate osteological collection.
Freeze-dries galls collection
Tracks and signs woodcraft collection
The lichen collection containing type material
Local significance | Subjects: | Natural sciences Plants Vertebrates Invertebrates Insects Biology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 0116 247 3005 | Telephone: | 0116 225 4900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5134 | Go to resource |
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