The Henkelmann Life Science Collection has "hundreds of specimens ranging from the petite short-tailed Shrew to the gigantic Polar Bear, procured by Henry and Mary Henkelmann on expeditions from Africa to the Arctic.

He had specimens ranging from 3 years old to 35 years old, and they were beautiful.

There are 5,700 pieces in all in the museum collection plus another 21,500 archeological specimens ranging from cuff links to cannon balls.

Translucence can vary as well, with specimens ranging form nearly clear to completely opaque.

Visitors can peer into tanks filled with specimens ranging from babies to massive adults moshing about in their breeding pond.

The silver statuette and the reliquary of St Biagio at Ragusa, and the silver ark of St Simeon at Zara, are fine specimens of Italian jewellers' work, ranging in date from the 11th or 12th to the 17th century".

Similicaudipteryx is known from three specimens ranging from young juvenile to adult.

The museum, the first government-sponsored one in the country, opened the same year on the first floor of the College of Fort St. George, adjacent to the Literary Society in Nungambakkam, with an exhibit of nearly 20,000 freely gifted specimens ranging from rocks to books.

Hyloplesion was about as large as a medium-sized salamander, with the length of known specimens ranging from 17-77mm.

Collected over the last 50 years and still growing, the collection holds several million specimens, ranging from single-celled organisms to giant corals.