Closure
Here is a view of some of our collection all cleaned and digitized and ensconced in their new cabinets. It is now ready for study or...
1871 CORAL
This was the first specimen catalogued by the American Museum of Natural History. To quote from the museum’s Third Annual Report of 1871...
HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY
This small but beautiful specimen was taken from the ocean 100 years ago, on July 2, 1918. What was the world like when it first left the...
CORAL OR FLOWER?
It’s amazing how so many of the coral species in the collection remind me of plants and flowers. The tiny specimens below are from the...
Cleaning the World, One Coral at a Time
Cleaning the World, One Coral at a Time As I cleaned this beautiful, huge coral specimen I wondered what it had seen during its...
Old specimen boxes
Today, for our natural history collections, we are fortunate enough to purchase acid free products to collect and store our specimens to...
old coral collection space to new coral space
Today, our new cabinets from Delta Design came. Even with a few freight elevator hiccups, most of our cabinets have been installed in...
Our beginning
In December of 2016, we were awarded a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to clean, image, database and rehouse the...
