Until recently scientific knowledge of this rare species was limited to 11 skins collected in the late nineteenth century.
Only a single specimen, collected in the 19th century, is known.
The Museum's main collection of artifacts and fine art dates back to items collected in the early 19th century.
John Bell collected many tunes and songs from the region in the early nineteenth century.
These had been collected near Honolulu in the 19th century.
Ossetian folk music began to be collected in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Compositions of this sort were not committed to writing until collected in the 19th century.
This hummingbird is only known by six specimens which were collected in the 19th century.
All three museum skins were collected in the 20th century, but only one label has a date, which is given with 1971.
They were collected and traded like baseball cards throughout Touraine in the 19th century.