>As to transfer of collections: Around 1990 or so, Princeton divested itself
>of major paleontologic collections because of a managerial decision that
>paleontology was not a cutting-edge field. The invertebrate paleontology
>collection was transferred to the National Museum of Natural History (one
>branch of more than 50 in the Smithsonian Institution), and the vertebrate
>paleontology collection went to the Peabody Museum of Natural History at
>Yale University. Perhaps someone else has knowledge of their malacological
>collection; I do not. I recently borrowed trace fossils from the Smithsonian
>that were in the Princeton collection, which indicates that they are
>accessible.

My friend Jeffrey D Stilwell, now a paleontologist but then a
student, says he was (visiting) at Princeton at the time; they
actually invited the general public in to take specimens away. He
couldn't believe it. He snagged quite a bit...
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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