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Computerizing natural history collections
Endeavour, 2013Computers are ubiquitous in the life sciences and are associated with many of the practical and conceptual changes that characterize biology's twentieth-century transformation. Yet comparatively little has been written about how scientists use computers. Despite this relative lack of scholarly attention, the claim that computers revolutionized the life
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A history of Liverpool natural history collections
Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1980EARLY HISTORY The history of natural history museums in Liverpool is related to the prosperity of the city. In the seventeenth century Liverpool was a small town with an insignificant port. However, with the development of the first commercial enclosed dock in Britain in 1715 the city started to become one of the world's greatest deep sea ports (Hyde ...
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Natural History and Collection
1990This chapter is intended to deal with the lives of squids in their natural setting — the oceans of the world. Many entertaining stories about squid are given by Lane (1960). Squid have been popularized also by Voss and Sisson (1967) and Cousteau and Diole (1973). There are difficulties in approaching this subject owing to the vast extent of the world’s
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The Value of Natural History Collections
Curator: The Museum Journal, 1994ABSTRACTThe value of museum natural history collections is commonly poorly explained to, and therefore commonly misunderstood by, the general public. This is an increasingly dangerous situation at a time of tight fiscal constraints; if natural history collections are to survive, those charged with their care will have to do more to broadcast their ...
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Natural History Collections as Dynamic Research Archives
, 2017 This chapter discusses the importance of museum specimens and samples. Natural history collections are archives of biodiversity, snapshots that provide a way to physically retrieve an individual specimen and through it track changes in populations and ...
Bella Galil, Tamar Dayan
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Natural history as stamp collecting: a brief history
Archives of Natural History, 2007The endeavour of natural history has often been ridiculed as “mere stamp collecting” by those unwilling to see anything scientific in naturalists' work. This paper traces some of the ways the term “stamp collecting” has been used in scientific literature.
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Linking natural history collections
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018Lise Stork +3 more
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The future of natural history collections
2017Natural history collections face four main challenges: acquiring material, preserving that material, making it available for use, and making the case that the first three activities are worthy of support. These challenges are eternal ones, which have faced museums since their inception and are likely to persist for as long as museums exist. But natural
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Curating Natural History Collections
2017Natural history collections are composed of objects of natural origin, most often of biological or mineral nature. These collections include organismal collections (like plant, insect, and animal collections) as well as anthropological and geological collections.
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