UNIDENTIFIED FAUNISTIC STUDY HOLDINGS
- Allan Hancock Foundation
- (in the process of being - transferred to the Los Angeles
County Museum of Natural History over next five years [Bakus 1985])
- includes much unidentified material from the Hancock Expeds.
to Galapagos, Baja California and Mexico
- Central Pacific, Fanning Island atoll small encrusters
- generically identified voucher specimens collected for their
biochemical potential, from the Caribbean & Indo-Pacific
- miscellaneous collections from Alaska, California, Mexico, Hawaii
& Maldives
- Amsterdam (ZMA)
- - c. 200 specimens collected by Prof. Stock in the Red Sea,
Mauritius and Madagascar
- Australian Museum (AM)
- - large general collection (including c. 1,500 specimens from
J.B. Wilson)
- all the collections a massed by the Roche Research Institute
of Marine Pharmacology (part provisionally identified by Bergquist)
- British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria
- - Eastern Pacific sponges, half identified by B. Ott &
W.C. Austin (c. 400 lots?)
- France, CENTOB
- - recent cruises made by: "Charcot", "Suroit",
"Noroit" (pars)
- Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia
- - primarily fjord and deep water sponges collected off British
Columbia
- Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, UK
- - Antarctic, South & North Atlantic material collected
annually from 1937 to present day
- Leningrad (ZIL)
- - very large collections made by several Russian Arctic &
West Pacific Expeds., (1898-1985), and Soviet Antarctic &
sub-Antarctic Expeds. (1955-1977).
- large general collections from the Pacific, Indian & Atlantic
oceans and many other seas.
- London (BMNH)
- material from all oceans and seas, including unworked residue
from several earlier Expeds. & Colls. reported by Dendy, Kirkpatrick
and Burton
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ., Cambridge
(MCZ)
- - much unidentified material from the "Atlantis"
Exped. to Cuba
- some material from the "Hasler" Exped.
- general collections from Woods Hole area made over the years
- National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne (NMV)
- - well documented material (c. 1,400 lots) from recent surveys
(from late 1950's) of Victoria & Tasmania
- also, material from older collections (e.g. J.B. Wilson)
- New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Wellington
- - unidentified shelf & deep water collections from south
Pacific area, New Zealand to Kermadecs, Campbell plateau, Ross
Sea, etc.
- Ottawa National Museums of Canada
- - eastern Pacific mainly, but some western Atlantic specimens,
partly sorted to families (c. 450 lots)
- Paris (MNHN)
- - "Marion Dufresne" collections (pars) made in the
sub-Antarctic near Crozet, St. Paul, Amsterdam, Kerguelen, Bouvet
islands, etc.
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla
- - western Pacific deep-sea specimens with collection data
only
- Senckenberg, Frankfurt (NMS)
- - Red Sea collection made by the "Meteor" in 1978
- Gulf of Suez collected by Banwarth in 1913