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Malacology Collection (BISH-MAL)Collection Size: Approximately 6,000,000 specimens in over 248,000 lots (9th largest mollusk collection in the U.S.). Collection History: The first conchological acquisition of the Bishop Museum was the Andrew Garrett collection, purchased in 1894. HihiwaiThe subsequent history of the collection is largely a history of numerous expeditions and field trips in the Pacific, and of the acquisition of more than 30 major private collections, containing predominantly Pacific material. Most notable in the marine collection is the acquisition between 1948 and 1963 of the Thaanum-Langford collection, consisting of approximately 160,000 specimens from all over the Pacific. Contacts: Norine Yeung, nyeung@hawaii.edu Collection Type: Observations Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal Global Unique Identifier: ea3ca096-8cb8-4382-b802-e605a619dcc8 Digital Metadata: EML File Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain) Rights Holder: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Access Rights: not-for-profit use only Address:
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Herbarium Pacificum 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, HI 96817 United States 808 847-3511 Collection Statistics
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Development of the Consortium of Pacific Herbaria and several of the specimen databases have been
supported by National Science Foundation Grants (BRC 1057303,
ADBC 1304924
and ADBC1115116).
Data Usage Policy. Continued support provided by the Symbiota Support Hub, a domain of iDigBio (NSF Award #2027654).
Copyright 2015 University of Hawai‘i.
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