One thing about a scientific collection that includes insects is that the percentage of your collection that's on display is actually very small. We have just over 10 million specimens in our collection. We actually manage them in lots, so a jar of worms would be one, not 2,000, so we have 2.7 lots. Of that, we probably have only 5,000 specimens on display. If we add those that are on the road, that probably goes up, but again, given that scientific specimens in many cases are very small and we have a huge collection, it is quite small.
However, we make a point to ensure that our galleries are specimen-rich so that people see the diversity in minerals, plants, animals, and fossils, because that's really what provides the awe and the wonder. Further to what my colleague Mark O'Neill said on the power of the real, it really is powerful to watch visitors come into the museum and see just how large a polar bear is or how large a fossil actually was. They're thankful that they're not live.
Sorry, I digress.