Yale Mineralogy - Online Catalog

30,890 specimen lots available; last updated 22 Nov 2009 06:13:33

Enter terms for fields (e.g., Quartz, Connecticut):   MineralName   MineralAuthor   Locality   OtherAttributes Or a catalog number:   CatalogNumber Search terms match whole words rather than substrings No limitations on material Undetermined material only Sort by Mineral Sort by Locality   You may search the online catalog by specific fields, or for a catalog number. Searches are case-insensitive; by default, any string in a field that contains a term renders that record a match. For example, asking for "margin" will match "Margin," "marginal," and so forth. You can also ask that terms be matched in their entirety. Prior to searching, characters that are neither numbers or letters are stripped away, and single-character terms discarded (except for catalog number). Terms are and-ed together in the search. Further details about the data appear below. OTHER SEARCHES Anthropology | Botany | Entomology | Herpetology | Historical Scientific Instruments Ichthyology | Invertebrate Paleontology | Invertebrate Zoology | Mammalogy Mineralogy | Ornithology | Paleobotany | Vertebrate Paleontology Additional Notes on the Data The online holdings of the Mineralogy collection includes all catalogued items. CatalogNumber. In the Mineralogy collection, specimens are catalogued with a two-part number (e.g., YPM 1.125), occasionally followed by an upper case letter (e.g., YPM 1.125A). The first segment of the number can range from 1 to 5. MineralName. Any of the mineral names that have been applied to the specimen. MineralAuthor. The author and/or date of publication for an applied mineral name. Locality. A composite of the country, state (equivalent), county (or equivalent), place, and latitude & longitude, as available. Latitude & longitude are ordinarily given to the nearest minute. OtherAttributes Other specimen attributes that are specific to the holdings of the Mineralogy collection. A variety of keywords (in italics) that you might wish to use to limit searches are given below. Those listed under "OTHER" are available on the search form as pull-down menu options. NATURE: meteorite, pseudomorphic, synthetic OTHER: undetermined = undetermined material PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Yale University 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, 203-432-5050 All contents copyright (c) 2007 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. All rights reserved. Comments to: peabody.webmaster@yale.edu