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26 Sofia Bakayeva and Andrzej Kaim

Fig. 5. Letter from W. Friedberg to the publishing committee of the Museum.

Collections

A portion of the materials that Friedberg worked on has been published and is currently
preserved in a separate monographic section of the museum’s collections, where described
and type specimens are stored – so called “monograph collections”. In addition to the type
materials, the museum collection also stores the specimens that Friedberg personally
collected and contributed to the museum, as well as those that he identified or re-identified
while systematically examining the Neogene collections. These identifications are evidenced
by the entries placed in Friedberg’s own handwriting on the museum labels.
The Lviv Museum houses two distinct monographic collections processed by Wilhelm
Friedberg: a complete collection of foraminifera and a segment of the collection of Miocene
molluscs.

Collection of Cretaceous Foraminifera

The collection of foraminifera originates from the Inoceramus beds of Rzeszów and its
vicinity and was a subject of the research which resulted in a publication in 1901 (Friedberg,
1901) and later translated into English (Friedberg, 1994). This collection consists of 733
small glass vials, closed by a small cork stopper with a catalogue numbers on it (Figs 6, 7).
The collection is accompanied by a notebook with a list of specimens, meticulously
handwritten by Friedberg himself. Cretaceous foraminifera from the same region were