Research Collections
In addition to our education programs and exhibits, the Bean Life Science Museum is home to several research collections for use by BYU faculty and the larger academic community. If you would like more info on a particular collection, you can contact one of the curators listed on each collection tab.
Mammals
Specimens: 41,300 (400 uncatalogued)
Frozen tissues: 11,200
Geographic representation: Emphasis in the Great Basin (especially Utah and Nevada) and Mexico. Accredited by the American Society of Mammalogists (1991)
The collection includes skins, skulls, skeleton, tissue slides, paraffin tissue blocks, and trophies. It also houses the collection that was formerly at Utah State University as well as a portion of the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History collection (specimens from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Mexico).
SEARCH SPECIMEN RECORDS
Duke Rogers
Emeritus Curator