Non-survey collections
A brittle star (ophiuroid), Gorgoncephalus sp.
A significant volume of specimens at National Museums Scotland have come from a variety of individual collectors.
This kind of material is often collected for systematic and taxonomic reasons. As a result it often has poorer associated ecological data and is generally of less use for other possible forms of investigation. However, worthy of further mention are the:
Bruce Foraminifera Collection
- Contains published Arctic and Antarctic forams on microscope slides
Richie and Stephens Collection
- Includes hydroids (collected by Richie), and echiurid and sipunculid worms (collected by Stephens)
- Collected globally (from the Arctic, etc)
- Includes dried and spirit material from the 1920s