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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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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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A Computerized Database for a Natural History Collection
Curator: The Museum Journal, 1986The computerisation of specimen cataloguing at the indian river coastal zone museum, florida (usa), is described. The design of the system and the records generated are discussed in detail. Collection management has been enhanced through more accurate knowledge of museum holdings.
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Paleozoology's Dependence on Natural History Collections
Journal of Ethnobiology, 2010La 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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university museums and collections of natural history
2005Natural history museums and collections at American universities have been in decline for the past 30 years, due in part to increasing constraints on the financial support framework and the perception that natural history museums may be no longer central to the mission of universities.
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Linking natural history collections
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), 2018Katherine Wolstencroft +3 more
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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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French Natural History Collections
Museum International, 1948Achille Urbain, P. Rode
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Natural history collections and the National Museum of Natural History in Cuba
Museum Management and Curatorship, 1996openaire +2 more sources