Scientific collections
Insect and mite collection
The Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit (ASCU) maintains the largest and most comprehensive agricultural insect and mite collection in Australia. Find out more ...
Plant Pathology Herbarium
The Plant Pathology Herbarium has about 100,000 specimens of fungi, viruses, nematodes and bacteria of economic importance dating back to 1890. Find out more ...
Living Culture collections
There are two collections of living cultures included in the Plant Pathology Herbarium - the fungal culture collection (with 3500 isolates) and the bacterial collection (with 1400 isolates). Find out more ...
Otolith collection
The Wild Fisheries program of the NSW Department of Primary Industries maintains an archived collection of otoliths of NSW estuarine and oceanic fish species. The collection is housed at the Fisheries NSW office within the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman. Find out more ...
Scientific illustrations
This is a stunning collection of hand-painted illustrations of insects and plant diseases, painted by two illustrators between 1914 and 1970. Find out more ...