The University of Georgia has maintained a number of natural history collections under the aegis of various academic departments. In 1978, the University formerly recognized these collections as the Museum of Natural History, and in 1999, the Georgia General Assembly recognized it as the official State Museum of Natural History. The museum has 14 different collections in archeology, anthropology, botany her-barium, economic geology, herpetology, ichthyology, invertebrate, mammalogy, mycological her-barium, ornithology, paleontology, pollen and plant microspore, rocks and minerals, and zoology.
