Hawaii Biological Survey
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The Hawaii Biological Survey, located on the campus of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, was created as a program of the Bishop Museum by the Hawaii State legislature in 1992. HBS is an ongoing natural history inventory of the Hawaiian archipelago. It was created to locate, identify, and evaluate all native and non-native fauna and flora within the state, and to maintain the reference collections of that biota for a wide range of uses. The Bishop Museum collections are one of the largest in the United States, with more than 23 million specimens and objects.The HBS collections of plants and animals from the Hawaiian Islands total more than 4 million specimens.