- S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown)600 objects
- S2001-2002 #10: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (November 30, 2001–November 30, 2002)591 objects
- S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)584 objects
- S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)584 objects
- S1976-1977 #16: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Martin A. Baumhoff (September 29, 1976–February 25, 1977)567 objects
- S1964-1965 #8: University of California, Santa Barbara/Jay Ruby (August 26, 1964–April 17, 1967)562 objects
- S1993-1994 #21: California State University, Chico/Turhon Murad (July 12, 1994–May 4, 1998)560 objects
- S1945-1946 #3: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (dates unknown)549 objects
- S1965-1966 #17: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Fleming Heizer (September 20, 1965–June 27, 1966)524 objects
- S1971-1972 #17: University of California, Riverside/James F. O'Connell (August 20, 1971–1972)513 objects
- S1974-1975 #60: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (February 18, 1975–August 1975)507 objects
- S1976-1977 #20: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (October 20, 1976–June 6, 1977)467 objects
- S1980-1981 #39: California State University, Sacramento (December 19, 1980–March 6, 1981)432 objects
- S2017-2018 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Gabriel Sanchez (June 11, 2018–March 1, 2022)395 objects
- S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945)377 objects
- S2005-2006 #2: Integrative Biology Department (UC Berkeley)/Timothy D. White (April 10, 2002–unknown)372 objects
- S1991-1992 #7: California State University, East Bay (September 27, 1991–June 7, 1999)368 objects
- S1996-1997 #10: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 14, 1997–April 9, 2007)362 objects
- S1978-1979 #57: John Foster/John Foster (March 26, 1979–April 1, 1983)361 objects
- S1964-1965 #73: Department of Anthropology (CSU Sacramento)/Theordora Kreps (April 1, 1965–May 31, 1966)355 objects