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Description: | -Significant collection holding material from Sunderland, South Shields Museum and the Shipley Art Gallery (Saltwell Towers Museum) and includes the Tyne and Wear field work collection and for Vice County 66 Durham and Edward Backhouse (1808-79) Collection.. Insects c.100,000 and about half is spirit of locally collected fieldwork; Molluscs c.31,000 includes Woodward Collection of freshwater bivalves and has types; Birds Eggs c.3400; Marine inverts. C.750 mainly Crustacea and Echinoderms; Spirit c.1400 fish and inverts.; Fish, reptiles and amphibians c.80 casts and mounts; Osteology c.2000 mainly disarticulated; Economic botany c.70 wooden blocks; Corals, c6500 only major collection in region; Herbarium c.16,800 extensive local flora and Robson Collection includes 18th century specimens from Upper Teesdale and 1 type; there are also microscope slides c.900 of mainly marine inverts.and 200 models of radiolaria and fungi by Fric.
There is also an important archive and collections of rocks, minerals and fossils. All the collections are listed in the 'Catalogue of Natural Science Collections in North East England, 1986' and on the Fenscore website at www.fenscore.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nesearch.
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Sunderland Tyne and Wear United Kingdom,
SR1 1PP | FAX: | 0191 553 7828 | Telephone: | 0191 553 2323 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:6177 | Go to resource |
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