The history of the zoological collections housed in the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS started in 1818, when the Commission of the Public Education of the Polish Kingdom bought first collection and handed it over to the Zoological Cabinet (associated with the University of Warsaw) founded in 1819. In the second half of the XIX century the family of count BRANICKI sponsored numerous scientific explorations of the northern Africa and South America (Peru, Guiana, Ecuador). In 1919 the National Museum of Natural History (Zoological Division) was founded, on the basis of the collections of the Zoological Cabinet. Currently, the collections of the Museum and Institute of Zoology are the largest and richest in Poland. The entomological collections include over 3 million specimens, with about 9 000 type specimens. In early 1993 an inventory of the collections started. The computer data base is being used to store the information, and by the end of 1994 inventory had 56 196 records, including 708 records in the separate data base for type specimens. To disseminate information about the collections and the activities of the Zoological Museum, we are now starting the supplement to „Annales Zoologici” called „Bulletin of the Zoological Museum”, which will publish lists of the type specimens and current information about the activities of the Museum (collection and exhibition departments, curatoral staff etc.).
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