The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of the Mississippi State University (MSU) Ichthyology Collection. The collection began in 1968 under the direction of Glenn H. Clemmer and contains approximately 9220 cataloged lots. Material within the collection represents 475 taxa, 23 states, and four countries, including one lot of type material (paratype; Etheostoma boschungi, MSU 809).
The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) began in 1933 as the State Wildlife Museum under the direction of Fannye A. Cook. From 1936 to 1941, an extensive statewide Plant and Animal Survey was conducted as a joint federal and state WPA (Works Progress Administration) project under the technical supervision of Ms. Cook. These collections became the foundation upon which the present biological collections were established and were a primary resource for Cook's treatises on snakes (1954), salamanders (1957) and fishes (1959). Collections from the WPA survey...