History of the Collection – Ichthyology https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/collection/history/
Early Foundations Although established in 1917, the Florida Museum of Natural History Fish Collection was small and parochial in character until the late 1950s. Leonard Giovannoli served as part-time curator during the 1930s and 1940s while teaching in the University of Florida Department of Bi
transferred to other institutions, most notably the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia