Puget Sound Museum of Natural History

Not to be confused with Slater Memorial Museum.

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The Puget Sound Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the campus of the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington, United States.[1]

The museum's collection has ~31,000 mammals, 26,340 birds, 8,237 amphibians and reptiles, 12,500 insects, 13,000 plants, 11,500 fossils and 4,000 rocks and minerals.[2] The collection grows at a rate of one to two percent every year.[3] It was founded by James R. Slater.[4]

The museum is host to the world’s second largest bird wing collection.[5] The images are available to the public through the University of Puget Sound’s Wing & Tail Image Collection.[6]

  1. ^ "Slater Museum of Natural History - University of Puget Sound". www.pugetsound.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  2. ^ "Collections Summary - University of Puget Sound". www.pugetsound.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  3. ^ "Slater Museum of Natural History - Puget Sound Museum, University of Puget Sound, Thompson Hall Room 295, Tacoma, WA (2019)". www.gluseum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  4. ^ "Archives West: James R. Slater papers, 1898-1987". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
  5. ^ "Research - University of Puget Sound". www2.pugetsound.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
  6. ^ "CONTENTdm". digitalcollections.pugetsound.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-26.