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 The study of Costa Rican birds began with the collaboration of researches such as A. V. Frantzis, G. N. Lawrence, J. C. Zeledón, G. K. Cherrie, J. J. Cooper, Carriker, R. Ridway, A. Alfaro, C. T. Underwood and others.
With the creation of the National Museum, the important collection of J. C. Zeledón became a part of the institution’s collection. From the eighties decade in the XIX century until the thirties decade in the XX century, the bird collection became and important center of the American tropic ornithology (Stiles, 1983).
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 The collecting of mammals began in the middle of the XIX century. Among its pioneers we can find A. V. Frantzius and W. Gabb, also C. Hoffmann, O. Salvin and other, including the national A. Alfaro and J. C. Zeledón.
The first groups were sent to United States or Europe. Many of the several samples collected during those early years gave room for new descriptions of rodents, bats and other groups. The creation on the National Museum was necessary in order to have a place to storage the samples on national ground.
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 The first contributions from Henri Pitter and Paul Biolley on Costa Rican insects appeared between 1892 and 1897, while working for the National Geographic Institute. They sent the samples to United States and Europe. Mister José Fidel Tristán and Biolley increased the collecting work and specimen determination.
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Anthropology & Archaeology 
