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About the University of Wisconsin-Madison Zoological Museum Collection
The
University of Wisconsin–Madison Zoological Museum provides support of zoological research within the Department of Zoology, throughout the state and
region, nationally and internationally by collecting, curating and managing, and making available for research study and university instruction collections
of approximately 500,000 zoological specimens. One of the unique collections at the museum is that of the skeletons, slides, pictures, books, and research
papers associated with the Galápagos Islands.
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The Galapagos Collection
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collection of Galápagos materials that includes anatomical specimens, images, and papers at the UW-Madison Zoological Museum (UWZM) is unique and
rare. Since 1978, UWZM has been one of only 3 museums granted permission by the Ecuadorian Government to collect, preserve, transport, and maintain
scientific anatomical specimens from the Galápagos Islands. Ten expeditions since 1969 to the Galápagos by UW-Madison scientists and researchers
have produced a wealth of invaluable museum specimens: approximately 669 complete and 675 partial skeletons. In addition these expeditions have produced
thousands of images and papers that up until now have not been preserved in any format. 
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Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):
- Hand-written texts;
- Texts that contain diacritics;
- Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
- Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
- Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.