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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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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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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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Identifiers in Digital Natural History Collections
2023This 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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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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