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in France: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris contains 9,500,000 specimens; Université Montpellier contains 4,000,000 specimens; Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 contains 4,000,000 specimens
in Russia: Komarov Botanical Institute in St. Petersburg contains 7,160,000 specimens,
in Great Britain: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew contains 7,000,000 specimens; British Museum of Natural History contains 80,000,000 specimens; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh contains 2,000,000 specimens; University of Cambridge contains 1,000,000 specimens; University of Manchester contains 1,000,000 specimens;
in Switzerland: Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève contains 6,000,000 specimens; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich contains 1,500,000 specimens,
in Austria: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien contains 5,000,000 specimens; Universität Wien contains 1,400,000 specimens,
in Sweden: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) contains 4,400,000 specimens; Uppsala University contains 3,000,000 specimens, Botanical Museum, Lund contains 2,500,000 specimens, University of Gothenburg contains 1,600,000 specimens,
in Netherlands: National Herbarium of the Netherlands (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland) contains 4,000,000 specimens
in Italy: Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università, Florence contains 3,650,000 specimens; Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome contains 1,120,000 specimens; Università degli Studi di Torino contains 1,000,000 specimens,
in Belgium: National Botanic Garden of Belgium contains 3,500,000 specimens,
in Germany: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin contains 3,000,000 specimens, University of Jena contains 3,000,000 specimens; Botanische Staatssammlung München contains 2,500,000 specimens; Biozentrum Klein-Flottbek, Hamburg contains 1,400,000 specimens; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart contains 1,000,000 specimens
in Finland: University of Helsinki contains 3,000,000 specimens,
in Denmark: University of Copenhagen contains 2,510,000 specimens,
in Norway: Botanical Museum, Oslo contains 1,800,000 specimens,
See more: List of herbaria in Europe
Remarkable and big Biological collections (more than 1,000,000 specimens) in the Americas are:

in United States: New York Botanical Garden Herbarium contains 7,200,000 specimens; Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium contains 6,231,000 specimens; Harvard University Herbaria contains 5,005,000 specimens; United States National Herbarium, Washington contains 4,340,000 specimens; Field Museum, Chicago contains 2,650,000 specimens; University and Jepson Herbaria of University of California, Berkeley contains 2,200,000 specimens; California Academy of Sciences Herbarium of California Academy of Sciences contains 1,850,000 specimens;  University of Michigan Herbarium, Ann Arbor contains 1,700,000 specimens; Academy of Natural Sciences Herbarium of Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia contains 1,430,000 specimens; Wisconsin State Herbarium of University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison contains 1,100,000 specimens; Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Herbarium of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont contains 1,084,000 specimens; Plant Resources Center of University of Texas at Austin contains 1,006,000 specimens; Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth contains 1,000,000 specimens
in Canada: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Vascular Plant Herbarium contains 1,335,000 specimens,
in Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City contains 1,120,000 specimens.
See more: List of herbaria in North America
Remarkable and big Biological collections worldwide see: List of herbaria

== History / Human Heritage collections ==
Dendrochronology is located on the border between biology and history. An annual ring table or tree-ring calendar is a time series of tree ring s of dendrochronological art tree. Because of the specific growth of each tree species and regional differences of climate, such a table must always refer to a single species from the same region. Important tree chronologies are:

Hohenheimer Jahrringkalender (Hohenheim tree-ring calendar), complete 12,483 years back to 10,480 BC in the Younger Dryas
Aegean Dendrochronology Project to 1800 BC, Bronze Age
Belfast Chronology 5474 BC
English standard curve to 5,012 BC
Bristlecone Pine Chronology extends back 8500 years exists for the bristlecone pine in the Southwest US (White Mountains of California)
Sequoiadendron giganteum Chronology
Remerkable History collections:

The National Numismatic Collection is the national coin cabinet of the United States. The collection is part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. the collection contains over 1.6 million objects, including 450,000 coins, medals and decorations and 1.1 million pieces of paper money.
The Norwegian folk music series is a scientific collection of traditional Norwegian dance music.

== Literature ==
Pamela Ebert Flattau (Project Leader), Margaret Boeckmann, Paul Lagassla, Nyema Mitchell, Darius Singpurwalla: Preliminary Findings from the NSF Survey of Object-Based Scientific Collections: 2008 (pdf)

== See also ==
Chemical library
Collecting

== References ==

== Links ==
http://wissenschaftliche-sammlungen.de/de/netzwerk/initiativen/
http://www.plastercastcollection.org/en/index.php