Biology: Collections Gallery | Willamette University

Natural History Collection Gallery

This is a brief slideshow of some of our collection. For a more comprehensive photo gallery please visit our Flickr page.

Some of our poorly preserved, but still beautiful butterflies.
Birds are arranged alphabetically by family.
A Harbor seal skull.
A "wet preserved" scorpion collected in Hawaii.
Rodent skulls collected primarily by Dr. Donald Breakey.
Raccoons collected and mounted by the collection founder Dr. Morton E. Peck.
A limpet collected from the Oregon coast. Not all of our specimens are identified to species, especially in our wet collection.
A Western grebe skull apparently caught with fishing line and hook.