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Within Minnesota, the SMM collections are particularly strong with regard to grouse feather samples from hunter surveys in the mid 20th century, small mammals of Superior National Forest and Voyageurs National Park, plants of Wadena county, and mollusks of the Saint Croix watershed.</para></abstract><contact><organizationName>Science Museum of Minnesota Biology Collection</organizationName><phone></phone><electronicMailAddress>cearly@smm.org</electronicMailAddress><onlineUrl>https://www.smm.org/collections</onlineUrl><addr><deliveryPoint>120 West Kellogg Boulevard</deliveryPoint><city>Saint Paul</city><administrativeArea>MN</administrativeArea><postalCode>55102</postalCode><country>US</country></addr></contact><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Early</surName><givenName>Catherine</givenName></individualName><positionName>Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology &amp; Curator of Biology</positionName><electronicMailAddress>cearly@smm.org</electronicMailAddress><role>contentProvider</role></associatedParty><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Rowsey</surName><givenName>Dakota</givenName></individualName><positionName>Biology Collection Manager</positionName><electronicMailAddress>drowsey@smm.org</electronicMailAddress><role>contentProvider</role></associatedParty><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Iverson</surName><givenName>Charlie</givenName></individualName><positionName>Registrar</positionName><electronicMailAddress>civerson@smm.org</electronicMailAddress><role>contentProvider</role></associatedParty><intellectualRights><para>To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the <ulink url="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><citetitle></citetitle></ulink></para></intellectualRights></dataset><additionalMetadata><metadata><symbiota id=""><dateStamp>2026-04-18T14:22:55-05:00</dateStamp><citation identifier="ff1fa30c-e6a7-41cf-ab18-fc7b28946162">Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas - ff1fa30c-e6a7-41cf-ab18-fc7b28946162</citation><physical><characterEncoding>UTF-8</characterEncoding><dataFormat><externallyDefinedFormat><formatName>Darwin Core Archive</formatName></externallyDefinedFormat></dataFormat></physical><collection identifier="289aa421-7aa4-4855-94de-b7ebb9e11917" id="28"><alternateIdentifier>https://bellatlas.umn.edu/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=28</alternateIdentifier><parentCollectionIdentifier>SMM</parentCollectionIdentifier><collectionIdentifier></collectionIdentifier><collectionName>Science Museum of Minnesota Biology Collection</collectionName><resourceLogoUrl>https://bellatlas.umn.edu:443/content/collicon/smm.jpg</resourceLogoUrl><onlineUrl>https://www.smm.org/collections</onlineUrl><intellectualRights>https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</intellectualRights><additionalInfo>Science Museum of Minnesota Biology Collection (SMM-SMM)</additionalInfo><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Early</surName><givenName>Catherine</givenName></individualName><positionName>Barbara Brown Chair of Ornithology &amp; Curator of Biology</positionName><electronicMailAddress>cearly@smm.org</electronicMailAddress></associatedParty><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Rowsey</surName><givenName>Dakota</givenName></individualName><positionName>Biology Collection Manager</positionName><electronicMailAddress>drowsey@smm.org</electronicMailAddress></associatedParty><associatedParty><individualName><surName>Iverson</surName><givenName>Charlie</givenName></individualName><positionName>Registrar</positionName><electronicMailAddress>civerson@smm.org</electronicMailAddress></associatedParty><abstract><para>&lt;p&gt;The Science Museum of Minnesota Biology Collection contains approximately 170,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, mollusks, insects, and vertebrates. The SMM collection is global in scope, with strengths in the plants and animals of Minnesota and birds and mammals of Alaska. Within Minnesota, the SMM collections are particularly strong with regard to grouse feather samples from hunter surveys in the mid 20th century, small mammals of Superior National Forest and Voyageurs National Park, plants of Wadena county, and mollusks of the Saint Croix watershed.&lt;/p&gt;</para></abstract></collection></symbiota></metadata></additionalMetadata></eml:eml>
