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The collections are known throughout the global scientific community for its four-and-a-half million specimens from all over the world. They are famous especially, in addition to European specimens, for the material coming from the archipelago Indo-Malaysian (visited by Odoardo Beccari, Elio Modigliani and Lamberto Loria), New Guinea (Luigi Maria D'Albertis and Odoardo Beccari) and Burma (Leonardo Fea); from northeast Africa (O. Antinori, E. Ruspoli and V. Bottego) and West Africa (visited by Leonardo Fea); from central and southern America. The most are collected during the second half of the 19° century.Of particular note are the ornithological, mammalian, and rich entomological collections.
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