The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA The Smithsonian, Washington, DC, USA P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences Mullineaux lab. A lot contains all specimens of a given species collected at one place at one time.
Many lots contain a very large number of individual organisms.
Traditionally the museum's emphasis has been molluscs, but for vent fauna samples an effort has been made to have the collections reflect the taxonomic composition of the fauna. The Smithsonian, Washington, DC, USA Collection summary should be available in Fall, 1999. No whale falls. No deep frozen. The colonization samples include a wide variety of taxa including gastropods, bivalves, polychaetes, vestimentiferans, and crustaceans.