| Summary: | This list has been produced to record the museum's holdings of Birds' Eggs. Overall the collection totals some twenty-five thousand clutches with a strong bias towards Palaeartic material. Among the most significant holdings are collections made by the following: Blair, H M.S Bruce, W. S. (Scottish National Antarctic Expedition) Cochrane, H L Dalgleish, J J Feilden, H W and Harvie-Brown, J A Gibson, E Girdwood, G Hills, I E Ingram, D Lee, O A J McNeile, J H Serle, W In total, around three hundred donors have contributed to the collections, and many small accessions of scientifically or historically significant material are present (for example from the 'Challenger' Expediiton, H E Dresser, G A Keartland, N B Kinnear, J H Stenhouse, etc).
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