The museum has 27 specimens from the voyage of of 1872–1876 and material from several other notable expeditions including the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-3, the Ingolf Expedition of 1895-6, the Nimrod Expedition of 1907-9 and the Discovery Investigations of the 1930s. There are also specimens of various extinct species including Huia and Thylacine.