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Computerizing natural history collections

Endeavour, 2013
Computers 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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Natural History Museum (UK): collection report

2023
The Collecting the West: Reimagining Western Australia From its Collections project was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Program (LP160100078). The project was managed by the University of Western Australia in association with the Alfred Deakin Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University.
Ridhuan, Siti Sarah, Burrows, Toby, Paterson, Alistair, Witcomb, Andrea   +3 more
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The Natural History Museum Blaschka collections

Historical Biology, 2008
The Natural History Museum, London holds 182 Blaschka marine invertebrate models of anemones, nudibranchs, cephalopods, jellyfish, protozoans and corals. The models arrived at the museum in 1866, 1876, 1883 and 1889 and are examples of Blaschka work spanning almost the entire time they made marine invertebrates.
C. Giles Miller, Miranda Lowe
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A history of Liverpool natural history collections

Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 1980
EARLY 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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Curating Natural History Collections

2017
Natural 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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Natural history as stamp collecting: a brief history

Archives of Natural History, 2007
The 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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Natural History and Collection

1990
This 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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Paleozoology's Dependence on Natural History Collections

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2010
La paleozoologia (arqueozoologia y paleontologia) depende de las colecciones historicas naturales o de las colecciones comparativas de esqueletos de taxonomia conocida. Estos esqueletos permiten la identificacion taxonomica de especimenes paleo-zoologicos, facilitan la identificacion tafonomica (peri-mortem y post-mortem) modificada y anormal o ...
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Identifiers in Digital Natural History Collections

2023
This is a collection of resources focusing on GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) on what they are, what role they play in digital natural history collections, and how to incorporate them in research based work.
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