Collections / Deposit a specimen
Deposit a specimen
Deposit a research voucher or a type specimen in the collection, to be kept to international practice The steps and conditions are samples, and still to be confirmed
Why deposit
A voucher that can be found again
Specimens are kept in systematic order, to international practice, with a specialist for each group, so that other researchers can cite and check them
Before you deposit Sample
- Collecting data: place, coordinates, date and collector
- Identification, if you have one
- How the specimen is preserved, for example in fluid or dried
- A collecting permit, if one is required
Steps Sample
- Contact the collections team with the group and the number of specimens
- Send the specimen data in advance
- Bring the specimens on the agreed day
- Receive a catalogue number to cite in your work
Collection managers and researchers
Contact the person who looks after that group before you bring the specimens
Request form Sample · nothing is sent yet
Contact the collections team
Tel. 07-428-2783 · psu.museum@gmail.com A dedicated contact is still to be confirmed
Image credit: the jars are a collection photograph from the museum’s previous website