State-owned public university governed by the Iowa Board of Regents, with multiple natural history collections.
The natural history collection is active.
In 2011, the vertebrate collections are being transferred to the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science. The invertebrates will largely be relocated to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. Thus, the collections will largely remain…
The University of Rochester has biological, mineralogical, and fossil material that had been part of the University of Rochester Natural Science Museum, a large museum active from 1860 until the late 1960s. Biological specimens and some fossils are…