Revision of Selected List of Natural History Museums Having Diptera Collections from Mon, 2007-11-12 13:25

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Selected List of Natural History Museums Having Diptera Collections

Entomological collections database, DEI

Europe
The British Museum of Natural History, London
Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford; Bigot & Verral-Collin collections database
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Nematocera types and Tachinidae lists
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen; type and species lists
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm; species list
Museum of Zoology, Lund University; species lists
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Africa
Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg

North America
National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
Cornell
University Insect Collection, Ithaca; special collections database
Field Museum, Chicaco, Diptera Database
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; type database
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Biodiversity and Biological Collections (University of Kansas, Lawrence)

-->Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; type database
Ohio State University Insect Collection, Columbus; primary types
North Carolina State University, Raleigh; types
Canadian National Collection, Ottawa; Diptera Site

Meso & South America
INBio (National Institute of Biodiversity), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Oceania
The Bishop Museum, Honolulu
Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra
Australian Museum, Sidney

Standards and Other Documents

Bar Codes for Specimen Data Management (Thompson)

Where's the Management in Collection Management? (McGinley)