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Beaty Biodiversity Museum (Wiki page edit)

1 Location (->Add a map) http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/about/BeatyMap.pdf 2 History (Find out about the history of the Museum) http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/about/history 3 Collections 3.1 Cowan Tetrapod Collection 3.2 Marine Invertebrate Collection 3.3 Herbarium: Plants 3.4 Herbarium: Fungi 3.5 Spencer Entomological Collection 3.6 Fish Collection 3.7 Fossil Collection

3.1 Cowan Tetrapod Collection

The Cowan Tetrapod Collection was founded in 1951, and contains over 40,000 specimens representing over 500 species. The collection is the second largest collection of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians in British Columbia. It holds extensive, representative samples of nearly all species-and most subspecies-of British Columbia’s terrestrial vertebrates and marine mammals. The collection includes older specimens dating back to 1849, as well as rare specimens such as the red panda, endangered Vancouver Island marmot, and even extinct species such as the passenger pigeon. The collection is named after the museum’s first curator, Dr. Ian McTaggart Cowan, and was originally named the “Cowan Vertebrate Museum”.

3.2 Marine Invertebrate Collection

The Marine Invertebrate Collection was started in the 1940’s with alcohol preserved specimens collected by Dr. C. McLean Fraser and Dr. Ian McTaggart Cowan. The collection was primarily used for teaching purposes and eventually grew to several thousand specimens encompassing the major lineages of invertebrate animals. The collection was expanded in 2006, due to the donation of thousands of shells and corals by Kelly Norton. The collection was further expanded the following year with a large donation from Evelyn Hebb Killiam.

3.3 Herbarium: Plants