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| The research collection is worldwide in scope and presently, (as of annual report 2002-03) contain 230000 catalogued lots representing 420,099 individual specimens (1,061 genera and 5,222 species) of which 13,176 are skeletons This includes 462 Primary Type specimens (representing 415 taxa) and 5,330 Paratypes (representing 788 taxa). The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 4000 specimens per year. The auxiliary research collections contain 2,145 radiographs, 7,288 kodachrome slides, and 6,015 frozen tissue samples. |
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