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AMNH Dry Coral Collection

History of the

Coral Collection at AMNH

Some of our coral pieces in the dry collection at the AMNH date back to 1864. However, Roy Waldo Miner, a marine biologist and Curator of Lower Invertebrates, conducted five expeditions over twelve years to the Bahamas to retrieve coral with which he recreated a coral reef for display in the Hall of Ocean Life.

AMNH ID 38847

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