The Natural Science Collection September 10, 2008

The Natural Science Collection is a significant component of The Newark Museum's educational activities, including holdings in zoology, botany, geology and paleontology. The founding collection, bequeathed to the Museum by Dr. William Disbrow in 1922, contained more than 70,000 examples of precious stones, rocks, minerals, pressed plants and seeds. The Museum's holdings have been augmented over the years, and today specimens from all over the world comprise the ornithology, entomology and shell collections; a reference herbarium is the repository of several rare New Jersey plants, among many others; and over 30,000 rocks, minerals and gems.