Category Archives: MVZ collections

The Red Fox Population of the Sacramento Valley: Artifact of Manifest Destiny or Endemic Anomaly? Part III

Posted on August 21, 2014 by mvzarchguest

Written by Alessandra J. Moyer, fourth year, Integrative Biology Part III: Patwin In the 1920s and 30s, when Grinnell, Dixon, and Linsdale in the MVZ were puzzling over the Sacramento Valley red foxes, there was no way to adequately determine the … Continue reading →

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The Red Fox Population of the Sacramento Valley: Artifact of Manifest Destiny or Endemic Anomaly? Part II

Posted on August 12, 2014 by mvzarchguest

Written by Alessandra J. Moyer, fourth year, Integrative Biology Part II: A Wild West hypothesis In November 1923, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology received a red fox specimen from the Sacramento Valley. This specimen represented a population that was previously unknown … Continue reading →

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The Red Fox Population of the Sacramento Valley: Artifact of Manifest Destiny or Endemic Anomaly? Part I

Posted on August 5, 2014 by mvzarchguest

Written by Alessandra J. Moyer, fourth year, Integrative Biology Part I: The holotype Holotype: The single specimen (except in the case of a hapantotype,q.v.) designated or otherwise fixed as the name-bearing type of a nominal species or subspecies when the nominal … Continue reading →

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Photographic Equipment, History and the MVZ

Posted on July 24, 2014 by mvzarchguest

Written by John Hickman, Archival Volunteer Recently I was tasked with cataloging a collection of old photographic equipment that found its way to the archival storage shelves of the MVZ. Being from the ‘pre-digital’ age, what I found was an amazing collection … Continue reading →

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A Hidden Treasure: MVZ’s Public Service Collection

Posted on May 27, 2014 by mvzarchguest

Written by Christina Kohler, second year double major in Environmental Economics & Policy and Molecular Environmental Biology. I first experienced the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology on Cal Day before I had decided to come to UC Berkeley. The day was a … Continue reading →

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