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The Engerrand-Chantegrain collection:
This is a beautiful collection from classic French and Belgian Eocene and Paleocene sites. George Engerrand was the first head of Anthropology at UT. He bought this collection from P. Chantegrain while he was in France. He apparently sold the collection to BEG in 1927 and is reputed to have used the funds to support the Mexican Revolution. This collection is probably the finest Tertiary collection from type localities in western Europe outside of the National Museum. It is catalogued in the UT collection and includes about 600 lots.
The King collection:
Ralph Hughes King provided about 2000 lots of Pennsylvanian aged specimens. The material includes a range of groups but especially brachiopods and sponges. King described new species in both groups and those specimens are in the type collection.
The Irving and Steussey Collection:
A small collection of fossil plants.
The Sellards collection:
An important collection of Permian insects.
The Singley-Askew collection:
Both J.A. Singley and H.G. Askew were collectors of Recent shells. The collection is worldwide and provides a pre-industrial reference collection for freshwater and marine molluscs. Askew's unionid bivalve collection is one of the finest.
The Stenzel collection:
A largely Tertiary collection from Texas, including molluscs, echinoderms, and arthropods (particularly crabs). This collection includes specimens from the River Brazos locations of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary.
Much of this collection, over 8000 lots, was tagged with locality numbers and has now been assigned 'NPL' numbers. Stenzel also created an important genotype collection
The Wells collection:
John West Wells was a student of F.L. Whitney. His collection includes Cretaceous corals. These have been of particular importance to recent research into the evolution of hermatypic corals.
Most of his specimens are in the type and figured collection.
