THE U.S. COLLECTIONS

Northeast

Southeast

West

Central

Denotes  a collection with particularly exceptional material

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THE NORTHEAST COLLECTIONS

U.S. National Museum

Museum of  Comparative Zoology at Harvard

Yale Peapody Museum

American Museum of  Natural History

WASHINGTON, DC

CAMBRIDGE, MA

NEW HAVEN, CT

NEW YORK, NY

My former home base, and probably the greatest collection of echinoderms in the world. This is also the home base of the Echinoderm Newsletter, which lists all sorts of information about echinoderm researchers worldwide. To schedule a visit to use the echinoderm national collections, or for loan information, contact  CYNTHIA AHEARN.

In its prime, during the time of H.L. Clark, it was the great U.S. collection allong with the NMNS. Still home to hundreds of types and other important material, the collection has required serious TLC in recent years. It is a great complimentary collection to the NMNH, and there is remarkable little overlap in species between them. This website also has information on copies of old MCZ bulletins available for purchase. For funding to study at the MCZ, applu for an ERNST MAYR AWARD

I have not visited, but have contacted them. This is the possible repository for some of Verrill’s type material.

I have not visited or contacted them, but this is another potential location for mysterious A. E. Verrill types.

THE SOUTHEASTERN COLLECTIONS

Rosenstiel  School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Harbor Branch  Oceanographic Institute

MIAMI, FL

FT. PIERCE, FLORIDA

The school is associated with the university of Miami. If you are interested in Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico deep water material, this is a collection not to be missed (though not well known and easily overlooked). I found and incredible number of species, many not seen since originally collected (e.g., species from the ‘Blake’ expedition housed at the MCZ). The collections housed here include those from the R/V Gillis, Gerda and Columbus-Islin among others. On the European collections page, I note the significance of the tremendous Musorstom material kept in Paris. This collection may be the Caribbean equivalent.

A small collection of material primarily obtained by the Institution, using their research vessels as well as the Johnson Sea Links (research submersibles).

THE WESTERN COLLECTIONS

Natural History Museum  of Los Angeles County

California  Academy of Sciences

Scripps Institution  of Oceanography

LOS ANGELES, CA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

LA JOLLA, CA

Thanks to the collecting of Dr. Gordon Hendler, this museum has a healthy array of ophiuroid material from the Pacific and Caribbean.

This collection has a nice selection of Pacific material and local California species. It als has Dr. Rich Mooi, making a stop over well worth the trip.

A small but usedull collection comprised mostly of specimens collected by the oceanography cruises of the Institution.

THE CENTRAL COLLECTIONS

The Field Museum

CHICAGO, IL

I have not visited this collection, but it has some deep water material from off the Pacific Northwest. To see a sample of the sort of echinoderms found here, go to the DEEP-SEA  PAGES by Paul Yancey. There are also travel grants available for study at the museum.  

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