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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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Linking natural history collections
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018Stork, Lise +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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Sherborn's Guide to Natural History Collections
1944(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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French Natural History Collections
Museum International, 1948Achille Urbain, Paul Rode
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Handling Objects in Natural History Collections
2016This essay makes the manipulation of objects in natural history collections a crucial part of scientific practice. It investigates the scientific uses and meanings of cabinets of naturalia using a few objects and a few collectors from the wide spectrum of natural history collecting in eighteenth-century France, looking especially at how objects were ...
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