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Description: | The collection is of the flora and fauna of the Portsmouth, south east Hampshire and West Sussex built up mainly since 1947 by staff collection, bequests, and donations, on a pre World War II residue, that includes the Guermonprez Collection of 100,000 specimens of flora and fauna of West Sussex and Hampshire. The zoology is British and Foreign birds, mammals and molluscs; British amphibians and reptiles, British fish, insects, butterflies and crustacea; small wet-preserved collection and small number of sets and specimens by local taxidermists. There is a large British Herbarium with early collected specimens and marine algae and bryophytes. Also a collection of fossils from southern England, rocks from the Hampshire Basina and other world-wide material.
There is a significant collection of 19th centruy boooks, and important collection of Guermonprez watercolours and field notes and the specimens and papers of the Hayling Island Mosquito Project. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Museum Road
Old Portsmouth
Portsmouth Hampshire United Kingdom,
PO1 2LJ | FAX: | 01705 875276 | Telephone: | 01705 827261 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4505 | Go to resource |
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