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Ueda, Hirochika, Yurika Saito, Haruo Tanaka, and Keiichi Kaneko. "Deciphering Japanese Labels on Old Natural History Specimens." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8 (November 27, 2024): e142847. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.142847.

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For natural history specimens, metadata such as collection locality, date, and collector's name are essential information ensuring the specimens' scientific value. However, specimens collected decades ago may have missing or illegible metadata.The Takashi Kurobe's Rock and Mineral Collection*1 consists of 883 rock, mineral, and fossil specimens stored in the Soil Science Laboratory in the Faculty of Agriculture at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Of these, 611 specimens were collected through purchase, while the remaining 272 were collected by faculty members, students, and
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KATO, Makoto. "Natural History Specimens in Ecology." TRENDS IN THE SCIENCES 20, no. 5 (2015): 5_24–5_29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5363/tits.20.5_24.

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Meurgues, Geneviève. "The preservation of natural history specimens." Museum International 38, no. 2 (1986): 92–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0033.1986.tb00620.x.

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Allan, Elizabeth Louise, Steen Dupont, Helen Hardy, Laurence Livermore, Benjamin Price, and Vincent Smith. "High-Throughput Digitisation of Natural History Specimens." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (June 25, 2019): e37337. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37337.

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The Natural History Museum, London (NHM) has embarked on an ambitious Digital Collections Programme to digitise its collections. One aim of the programme has been to improve the workflows and infrastructure needed to support high-throughput digitisation and create comprehensive digital inventories of large scientific collections. Pilot projects have been carried out for a variety of collection types, from which high-throughput imaging workflows have been developed and refined. These workflows have focused on pinned insect specimens (Blagoderov et al. 2012, Paterson et al. 2016, Blagoderov et a
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Cooper, Natalie, Alexander L. Bond, Joshua L. Davis, Roberto Portela Miguez, Louise Tomsett, and Kristofer M. Helgen. "Sex biases in bird and mammal natural history collections." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1913 (2019): 20192025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2025.

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Natural history specimens are widely used across ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation. Although biological sex may influence all of these areas, it is often overlooked in large-scale studies using museum specimens. If collections are biased towards one sex, studies may not be representative of the species. Here, we investigate sex ratios in over two million bird and mammal specimen records from five large international museums. We found a slight bias towards males in birds (40% females) and mammals (48% females), but this varied among orders. The proportion of female specimens has no
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Hedrick, Brandon P., J. Mason Heberling, Emily K. Meineke, et al. "Digitization and the Future of Natural History Collections." BioScience 70, no. 3 (2020): 243–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz163.

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Abstract Natural history collections (NHCs) are the foundation of historical baselines for assessing anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Along these lines, the online mobilization of specimens via digitization—the conversion of specimen data into accessible digital content—has greatly expanded the use of NHC collections across a diversity of disciplines. We broaden the current vision of digitization (Digitization 1.0)—whereby specimens are digitized within NHCs—to include new approaches that rely on digitized products rather than the physical specimen (Digitization 2.0). Digitization 2.0 bu
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BEIDLEMAN, RICHARD. "More than Specimens in Natural History Museums." BioScience 54, no. 7 (2004): 612. http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0612:mtsinh]2.0.co;2.

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Fenlon, Anna, and Lucia Petrera. "Pyrite oxidation: a history of treatments at the Natural History Museum, London." Geological Curator 11, no. 1 (2019): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc403.

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Whilst surveying the palaeontology collections at the Natural History Museum London (NHM), a team of Conservation Technicians working on 'Project Airless' (a re-storage project for actively deteriorating pyritic specimens) kept a record of specimen labels describing past methods for treating pyrite oxidation, ranging from 'boiling in common soda' to treating with 'Savlon'. This prompted further research into the thinking behind these approaches, and resulted in a historical review of treatments used at the NHM and how they compare to current methods. The oxidisation of unstable pyritic materia
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Ruskin, Steve. "The Business of Natural History." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 45, no. 3 (2015): 357–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2015.45.3.357.

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Charles Aiken was a Colorado ornithologist and specimen dealer whose career spanned almost sixty years, roughly 1870–1930. He was an entrepreneurial naturalist who operated a long-running commercial natural history dealership in Colorado Springs, which enabled him to pursue his passion for birds and make important contributions to American ornithology. Definitive studies of Colorado and Rocky Mountain avifauna were based on his personal specimen collection and extensive residential knowledge. However, his contributions to ornithology have largely been forgotten, highlighting the fact that coll
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Shorthouse, David, and Roderic Page. "Quantifying Institutional Reach Through the Human Network in Natural History Collections." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (August 8, 2019): e35243. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35243.

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Through the Bloodhound proof-of-concept, https://bloodhound-tracker.net an international audience of collectors and determiners of natural history specimens are engaged in the emotive act of claiming their specimens and attributing other specimens to living and deceased mentors and colleagues. Behind the scenes, these claims build links between Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers (ORCID, https://orcid.org) or Wikidata identifiers for people and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) specimen identifiers, predicated by the Darwin Core terms, <em>recordedBy</em> (collected) and
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Harvey, Linzi. "Treasures in tins: historical packaging in natural history collections." Geological Curator 11, no. 4 (2020): 255–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc1495.

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Historical packaging that utilises unusual or readily available items rather than modern conservation grade materials to store specimens is commonplace in many museum collections. It can be an additional, and fascinating, source of information about specimens and can expand on the time, place and historical context in which they were collected. Whilst now recognised as unsuitable storage media, such packaging does offer data relevant to scientific research as well as the culture and history of specimen collection. Information about the packaging itself should therefore be preserved in associat
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Crane, J. L., and Pamela P. Tazik. "Catalog of Types of the Illinois Natural History Survey Mycological Collections (ILLS)." Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin 34, no. 1-6 (1992): 535–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v34.136.

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The Survey's mycological collection now contains approximately 300 type specimens, 800 Myxomycetes, 1,200 lower fungi, 10.000 Ascomycetes, 13,200 Fungi Imperfecti, 17,000 Basidiomycetes. and 5.000 lichens, for a total of 47.500 specimens. This catalog provides information for each type specimen on the binomial, the full name and initials of the authorities, the place of publication, the category of type, substrate or host, locality data, date of collection, collector, and accession number. The categories of type specimens follow the Botanical Code (Grueter et al. 1988. Article 7).
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MARTINS, CALEB CALIFRE, and BENJAMIN W. PRICE. "An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Osmylidae collection (Neuroptera) at the Natural History Museum, London." Zootaxa 4883, no. 1 (2020): 1–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4883.1.1.

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The Natural History Museum, London, houses of one of the largest insect collections in the world including several hundred specimens of the small lacewing family Osmylidae. Herein we provide the complete label information, specimen condition, locality and habitus pictures of the Osmylidae primary types of the Natural History Museum, with some historical information about the specimens.
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Sendino, Consuelo. "The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 16, no. 4 (2020): 363–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042.

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This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Po
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Castiglia, Riccardo, and Spartaco Gippoliti. "Neotropical mammals in natural history collections and research in Rome, Italy." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais 15, no. 3 (2020): 851–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.46357/bcnaturais.v15i3.254.

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The occurrence and the history of Neotropical mammal specimens in the collections of naturalistic museums in Rome, Italy, and their scientific utilization is here reviewed. These specimens belong to several scientific expeditions made after the discovery of the new Continent. The oldest specimens date back to the famous Museum of Athanasius Kircher at the Collegio Romano (1651) and to the Museo Zoologico della Università di Roma that was established inside the University of the Pontificial State (Archigymnasium) (1823). Many of these early specimens are now lost due to the complex history of R
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Sendino, Consuelo. "The Lyell Collection at the Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London (UK)." Biodiversity Data Journal 7 (February 19, 2019): e33504. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e33504.

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This paper provides a quantitative and general description of the Lyell Collection kept in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum of London. This collection started to be built by the eminent British geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) in 1846 when the first specimen reached the Museum. The last one entered in 1980 donated by one of Lyell's heirs. There are more than 1700 specimens, mainly hand specimens with 93% of the fauna and flora from the Cenozoic of the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Canaries and Madeira. Those specimens that belong to the Lyell Collection
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Cannon-Brookes, P. "Security: Natural history specimens as works of art." Museum Management and Curatorship 13, no. 4 (1994): 436–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0964-7775(94)90100-7.

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Paterson, Gordon, Sara Albuquerque, Vladimir Blagoderov, et al. "iCollections – Digitising the British and Irish Butterflies in the Natural History Museum, London." Biodiversity Data Journal 4 (September 13, 2016): e9559. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e9559.

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The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections . The first phase of this programme has been to undertake a series of pilot projects that will develop the necessary workflows and infrastructure development needed to support mass digitisation of very large scientific collections. This paper presents the results of one of the pilot projects – iCollections. This project digitised all the lepidopteran specimens usually considered as butterflies, 181,545 specimens representing 89 species from the British Isles and Ireland. The data digit
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Ahmad Nasir, Ahmad Syafiq, Nur Ilya Atiqah Jesi, Georgine Josslyn George, Khairul Adha A. Rahim, and Samsur Mohamad. "Taxonomy Of Naticidae Guilding, 1834 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) Collection From Sarawak Natural History Museum." Sarawak Museum Journal LXXXV, no. 107 (2023): 107–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2023-xg39-07.

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This study focused on the taxonomic study of the gastropod family Naticidae based on specimens at the Sarawak Natural History Museum. A total of 146 specimens were investigated. There are 6 species found in the boxes of the specimen’s collection which are Mammilla melanostoma (Gmelin,1791), Neverita didyma (Röding,1798), Paratectonatica tigrina (Röding,1798), Polinices albumen (Linnaeus,1758), Polinices mammilla (Linnaeus,1758) and Tanea lineata (Röding,1798). A list of specimens of each species is provided in this study. From all the available specimens in the museum, a dichotomous key is for
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McAlister, Erica, and Peter Wing. "Type material of Asilidae (Diptera) described by Jason Londt in the Natural History Museum, London." African Invertebrates 64, no. 2 (2023): 41–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.103087.

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The primary and secondary types as well as some non-type material donated by Jason Londt (and various collaborators) to the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) have been examined and databased which comprises 35 holotypes, 293 paratypes, and 18 non-types (added for completeness), a total of 328 type specimens from 103 species (6% of the total Afro-tropical fauna). All specimen labels were imaged, both frontal and reverse sides, alongside the specimen. Notes were made of any dissections or damage to the specimens. Additional notes were made of any differences between the labels from the spec
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McAlister, Erica, and Peter Wing. "Type material of Asilidae (Diptera) described by Jason Londt in the Natural History Museum, London." African Invertebrates 64, no. (2) (2023): 41–77. https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.103087.

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The primary and secondary types as well as some non-type material donated by Jason Londt (and various collaborators) to the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) have been examined and databased which comprises 35 holotypes, 293 paratypes, and 18 non-types (added for completeness), a total of 328 type specimens from 103 species (6% of the total Afro-tropical fauna). All specimen labels were imaged, both frontal and reverse sides, alongside the specimen. Notes were made of any dissections or damage to the specimens. Additional notes were made of any differences between the labels from the spec
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Khidas, Kamal, and Stéphanie Tessier. "Building Next-Generation Collections: Natural History Specimens, Just One Click Away!" Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 4, 2018): e26145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26145.

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Digitisation has made significant advances in many natural history collections since the 1980s. The Vertebrate Zoology Collections team of the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMNVZC; ca. 1,250,000 catalogued specimens) has the ambition to go fully digital with our physical objects and associated data. Organising CMNVZC data electronically (primary digitisation) through computerisation for collection management purposes was initiated in 1972 and systematically implemented since the 1980s. This databasing process involved several stages, each with its own objectives and challenges. It resulted in ca.
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Khidas, Kamal, and Stéphanie Tessier. "Building Next-Generation Collections: Natural History Specimens, Just One Click Away!" Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (July 4, 2018): e26145. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26145.

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Digitisation has made significant advances in many natural history collections since the 1980s. The Vertebrate Zoology Collections team of the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMNVZC; ca. 1,250,000 catalogued specimens) has the ambition to go fully digital with our physical objects and associated data. Organising CMNVZC data electronically (primary digitisation) through computerisation for collection management purposes was initiated in 1972 and systematically implemented since the 1980s. This databasing process involved several stages, each with its own objectives and challenges. It resulted in ca.
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Tavares, Vasques Diego, Atsushi Ebihara, Atsuko Takano, Hiroshi Ikeda, and Atsushi Kawakita. "History and Importance of the Fern Herbarium Collections in Japan, With Focus on the University of Tokyo Herbarium." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 8 (October 3, 2024): e138439. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.8.138439.

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HERBARIUM PLANT SPECIMENS AND THEIR HERBARIUM HOLDINGS Natural history collections around the globe represent a dormant source of taxonomic and biogeographic information, as it is estimated that one to three billion specimens are included in such collections (Soberon 1999; Ariño 2010). In the case of botanical collections, the worldwide distribution of specimens across herbaria is often uneven and biased by colonialism, with most specimens housed in the global North, and in many cases resulting in a reverse latitudinal relationship between plant diversity present in nature and the location of
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Rui, Zhang, Chen Wei Ling, Huang Xing Yun, et al. "New methods of mold control in animal specimens." SDRP Journal of Earth Sciences & Environmental Studies 5, no. 1 (2020): 35–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.25177/jeses.5.1.ra.10629.

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Mold spores and hyphae infection is a serious problem and can lead to damage or loss of natural history specimens. Animal specimens play an important role in cultural exchange, science popularization, scientific research and economic window, but the preparation and preservation technology system of biological specimens is relatively unsafe and inefficient. Infection by Mold spores and hyphae is not only an acute problem that may cause damage or loss of specimens，but alsois very harmful to human beings health and polluted to environment, It is one of the principal element that restricts the dev
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Scott, Ben, and Laurence Livermore. "Extracting Data at Scale: Machine learning at the Natural History Museum." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 5 (September 7, 2021): e74031. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74031.

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The Natural History Museum holds over 80 million specimens and 300 million pages of scientific text. This information is a vital research tool to help solve the most important challenge humans face over the coming years – mapping a sustainable future for ourselves and the ecosystems on which we depend. Digitising these collections and providing the data in a structured, computable form is a mammoth challenge. As of 2020, less than 15% of available specimen information currently residing on specimen labels or physical registers is digitised and publicly available (Walton et al. 2020). Machine l
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Ahl, Louise, Luca Bellucci, Philippa Brewer, et al. "Digitisation of natural history collections: criteria for prioritisation." Research Ideas and Outcomes 9 (November 2, 2023): e114548. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.9.e114548.

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There are approximately 1.5 billion specimens kept in European Natural History Collections. The mission for the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is to unite all these specimens into a one-stop e-science infrastructure of digital specimens. This is a monumental digitisation task and criteria for how to prioritise this effort are, therefore, crucial for the success of the project. In this report, we have reviewed the literature and designed and conducted surveys of the digitisation plans and criteria used by DiSSCo Partners to understand the prioritisation criteria used in t
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Mecke, Sven, Felix Mader, Max Kieckbusch, Hinrich Kaiser, Wolfgang Böhme, and Raffael Ernst. "Tracking a syntype of the Australian skink Anomalopus leuckartii (Weinland, 1862): 'lost' treasures in the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden highlight the importance of reassessing and safeguarding natural history collections." Vertebrate Zoology 66 (September 28, 2016): 169–77. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.66.e31545.

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We here report the rediscovery of a type specimen of the Australian skink Anomalopus leuckartii (Weinland, 1862) in the Museum of Zoology (Museum für Tierkunde), Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden (accession number MTKD 10205), heretofore presumed lost during World War II. Eidonomic data for the specimen conform to the original species description, and combined with the specimen's history, we are able to unequivocally identify it as part of the original syntype series. Weinland's description was based on two specimens, one of which does indeed appear to be lost. Consequently, MTKD
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Schuettpelz, Eric, Paul Frandsen, Rebecca Dikow, et al. "Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections." Biodiversity Data Journal 5 (November 2, 2017): e21139. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e21139.

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Natural history collections contain data that are critical for many scientific endeavors. Recent efforts in mass digitization are generating large datasets from these collections that can provide unprecedented insight. Here, we present examples of how deep convolutional neural networks can be applied in analyses of imaged herbarium specimens. We first demonstrate that a convolutional neural network can detect mercury-stained specimens across a collection with 90% accuracy. We then show that such a network can correctly distinguish two morphologically similar plant families 96% of the time. Dis
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Talamas, Elijah, and Matthew Buffington. "Fossil Platygastroidea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution." Journal of Hymenoptera Research 47 (December 22, 2015): 1–52. https://doi.org/10.3897/JHR.47.5730.

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Platygastroid wasps preserved in Dominican amber and oil shale from the Kishenehn formation (Montana, USA) in the National Museum of Natural History are catalogued. Compression fossils in Kishenehn oil shale yield a specimen of Fidiobia, a specimen of Telenominae, and a specimen with a Scelio-type ovipositor system. Twenty-five described genera are documented from Dominican amber, all of which are known from the extant fauna: Allostemma Masner &amp; Huggert, Aradophagus Ashmead, Calliscelio Ashmead, Calotelea Westwood, Duta Nixon, Embidobia Ashmead, Embioctonus Masner, Fidiobia Ashmead, Gryon
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Sendino, Consuelo, and Andrew Tucker. "The Fossil Lithistida Collection at the Natural History Museum, London (UK)." Biodiversity Data Journal 10 (August 24, 2022): e87106. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e87106.

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This paper presents a quantitative and detailed description of the Fossil Lithistida Collection in the Natural History Museum, London. This collection started to be built with the first fossil sponges from the Cretaceous of Wiltshire, collected by William Smith in 1816 and 1818 for the first geological map of England. The latest specimen to enter the collection was collected from the Permo-Carboniferous of Norway by Angela Milner, a researcher at the Museum, in 2000. Although they are mostly from the Cretaceous of England, lithistids are represented from the Cambrian to Cenozoic of England. Th
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Drieënhuizen, Caroline, and Fenneke Sysling. "Java Man and the Politics of Natural History." Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 177, no. 2-3 (2021): 290–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379-bja10012.

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Abstract Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were and are usually presented as part of the natural world, containing only biological or geological information. However, their collections, like those of other museums, are rooted in colonial practices and thinking. In this article, we sketch a political and decolonial biography of ‘Java Man’, the fossilized remains of a Homo erectus specimen, housed in Naturalis, the Natural History Museum, in the Netherlands. We describe the context of Dutch colonialism and the role of indigenous knowle
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Lambkin, Trevor A. "Why make collections of natural history specimens, especially insects." Metamorphosis Australia : magazine of the Butterfly & Other Invertebrates Club 104 (September 2022): 10–15. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.420289.

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Schram, Frederick R. "Designation of a new name and type for the Mazon Creek (Pennsylvanian, Francis Creek Shale) tanaidacean." Journal of Paleontology 63, no. 4 (1989): 536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000019764.

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When i described the Mazon Creek tanaidacean crustacean and named it Cryptocaris hootchi Schram, 1974, two problems presented themselves. First, all specimens but one were in private collections, and none of their owners then seemed inclined to donate them to an established natural history museum. Second, the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago at that time contained only a single specimen, P32053, of what appeared to be the Mazon Creek tanaidacean. This specimen is peculiarly preserved and of only mediocre quality. Consequently, I based the description of the Mazon C
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Kuprewicz, Erin K., Frank M. S. Muzio, and Greyson Nackid. "Operation Bone Rescue—A Case Study of Remediating Flood Damage to Mammal Specimens." Collection Forum 35, no. 1 (2021): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14351/0831-4985-35.1.21.

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Abstract Water damage to natural history collections can result from both natural and human-caused environmental disasters. Floods can result in irreparable damage to scientific specimens, depending on the scale of the disaster, types of specimens affected, and availability of remediation resources. In April 2021, the mammal skeletal collection in the Biodiversity Research Collections (BRC) of the University of Connecticut (UConn) experienced a ceiling flood that affected 612 specimens. In this paper we detail all steps of our specimen rescue process and all materials and equipment we used to
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Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie, Meredith Miller, Torsten Dikow, et al. "A workflow for expanding DNA barcode reference libraries through 'museum harvesting' of natural history collections." Biodiversity Data Journal 11 (May 10, 2023): e100677. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e100677.

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Natural history collections are the physical repositories of our knowledge on species, the entities of biodiversity. Making this knowledge accessible to society – through, for example, digitisation or the construction of a validated, global DNA barcode library – is of crucial importance. To this end, we developed and streamlined a workflow for 'museum harvesting' of authoritatively identified Diptera specimens from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Our detailed workflow includes both on-site and off-site processing through specimen selection, labelling, imaging,
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Owen, David, Quentin Groom, Alex Hardisty, et al. "Towards a scientific workflow featuring Natural Language Processing for the digitisation of natural history collections." Research Ideas and Outcomes 6 (August 28, 2020): e58030. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e58030.

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We describe an effective approach to automated text digitisation with respect to natural history specimen labels. These labels contain much useful data about the specimen including its collector, country of origin, and collection date. Our approach to automatically extracting these data takes the form of a pipeline. Recommendations are made for the pipeline's component parts based on state-of-the-art technologies.Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to digitise text on images of specimens. However, recognising text quickly and accurately from these images can be a challenge for OCR.
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Mecke, Sven, Felix Mader, Max Kieckbusch, Hinrich Kaiser, Wolfgang Böhme, and Raffael Ernst. "Tracking a syntype of the Australian skink Anomalopus leuckartii (Weinland, 1862): &#39;lost&#39; treasures in the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden highlight the importance of reassessing and safeguarding natural history collections." Vertebrate Zoology 66, no. 2 (2016): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.66.e31545.

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We here report the rediscovery of a type specimen of the Australian skink Anomalopus leuckartii (Weinland, 1862) in the Museum of Zoology (Museum für Tierkunde), Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden (accession number MTKD 10205), heretofore presumed lost during World War II. Eidonomic data for the specimen conform to the original species description, and combined with the specimen’s history, we are able to unequivocally identify it as part of the original syntype series. Weinland’s description was based on two specimens, one of which does indeed appear to be lost. Consequently, MTKD
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Salvador, Rodrigo, and Daniel Cavallari. "Little-known Dangers to Natural History Collections: Bynesian Decay and Pyrite Decay." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26983. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26983.

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The deterioration of specimens in natural history collections is a major concern of curators. Collections containing carbonatic specimens (e.g., molluscs, corals, fossils) are of special concern, since calcium carbonate (CaCO3) can deteriorate in the presence of acidic vapours. There are two main types of danger related to these volatile acids, called Bynesian decay and pyrite decay. In Bynesian decay, acetic and formic acids are released by storage materials (e.g., wood, varnishes, cardboard). If the collection is not under adequate conditions and presents high relative humidity and temperatu
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Salvador, Rodrigo, and Daniel Cavallari. "Little-known Dangers to Natural History Collections: Bynesian Decay and Pyrite Decay." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26983. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26983.

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The deterioration of specimens in natural history collections is a major concern of curators. Collections containing carbonatic specimens (e.g., molluscs, corals, fossils) are of special concern, since calcium carbonate (CaCO<sub>3</sub>) can deteriorate in the presence of acidic vapours. There are two main types of danger related to these volatile acids, called Bynesian decay and pyrite decay. In Bynesian decay, acetic and formic acids are released by storage materials (e.g., wood, varnishes, cardboard). If the collection is not under adequate conditions and presents high relative humidity an
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Koch, André. "Discovery of a rare hybrid specimen known as Maria’s bird of paradise at the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig." Zoosystematics and Evolution 94, no. 2 (2018): 315–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.25139.

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The discovery of a rare hybrid specimen of Maria’s bird of paradise (Paradisaeamaria, i.e., P.guilielmi × P.raggianaaugustaevictoriae) in the ornithological collection of the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig (SNMB) is reported. Until today only six male specimens (deposited in the natural history museums in Berlin and New York) and presumably one female have been identified in collections world-wide. The male specimen in Braunschweig corresponds well in its plumage colouration with an historical illustration and photographs of the original type specimen from the 19th centur
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Koch, André. "Discovery of a rare hybrid specimen known as Maria's bird of paradise at the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig." Zoosystematics and Evolution 94, no. (2) (2018): 315–24. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.25139.

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The discovery of a rare hybrid specimen of Maria's bird of paradise (Paradisaea maria, i.e., P. guilielmi × P. raggiana augustaevictoriae) in the ornithological collection of the Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum in Braunschweig (SNMB) is reported. Until today only six male specimens (deposited in the natural history museums in Berlin and New York) and presumably one female have been identified in collections world-wide. The male specimen in Braunschweig corresponds well in its plumage colouration with an historical illustration and photographs of the original type specimen from the 19th ce
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Schindel, David E., and Joseph A. Cook. "The next generation of natural history collections." PLOS Biology 16, no. 7 (2018): e2006125. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13504624.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology. The stage is now set for a new generation of collecting, preserving, analyzing, and integrating biological samples—a generation devoted to interdisciplinary research into complex biological interactions and processes. Next-generation collections may be essential fo
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Schindel, David E., and Joseph A. Cook. "The next generation of natural history collections." PLOS Biology 16, no. 7 (2018): e2006125. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13504624.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology. The stage is now set for a new generation of collecting, preserving, analyzing, and integrating biological samples—a generation devoted to interdisciplinary research into complex biological interactions and processes. Next-generation collections may be essential fo
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Schindel, David E., and Joseph A. Cook. "The next generation of natural history collections." PLOS Biology 16, no. 7 (2018): e2006125. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13504624.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology. The stage is now set for a new generation of collecting, preserving, analyzing, and integrating biological samples—a generation devoted to interdisciplinary research into complex biological interactions and processes. Next-generation collections may be essential fo
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Schindel, David E., and Joseph A. Cook. "The next generation of natural history collections." PLOS Biology 16, no. 7 (2018): e2006125. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13504624.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impressive research results in organismal biology. The stage is now set for a new generation of collecting, preserving, analyzing, and integrating biological samples—a generation devoted to interdisciplinary research into complex biological interactions and processes. Next-generation collections may be essential fo
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Dupont, Steen, and Benjamin Price. "ALICE, MALICE and VILE: High throughput insect specimen digitisation using angled imaging techniques." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (June 13, 2019): e37141. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37141.

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The world's natural history collections contain at least 2 billion specimens (Ariño 2010), representing a unique data source for answering fundamental scientific questions about ecological, evolutionary, and geological processes. Unlocking this treasure trove of data, stored in thousands of museum drawers and cabinets, is crucial to help map a sustainable future for ourselves and the natural systems on which we depend. The rate-limiting steps in the digitisation of natural history collections often involve specimen handling, due to their fragile nature. Insects comprise the single largest coll
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Schmitt, C. Jonathan, Joseph A. Cook, Kelly R. Zamudio, and Scott V. Edwards. "Museum specimens of terrestrial vertebrates are sensitive indicators of environmental change in the Anthropocene." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374, no. 1763 (2018): 20170387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0387.

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Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving specimens over 200 years ago. The importance of museum specimens in studies of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and evolutionary biology is evidenced by a rich and abundant literature, yet creative and novel uses of specimens are constantly broadening the impact of natural history collections on biodiversity science and global sustainability. Excellent examples of the critical importance of specimens come from their u
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Daszkiewicz, Piotr, Tomasz Samojlik, and Anastasia Fedotova. "THE EUROPEAN BISON OF THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN PARIS AND THE HISTORY OF ZOOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEOGRAPHY IN THE XVIII AND XIX CENTURY." Kosmos 67, no. 4 (2019): 703–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.36921/kos.2018_2406.

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This article presents a history of the European bison specimens preserved at the National Museum of NaturalHistory (MNHN) in Paris. The inventory made in 1945 by Jacques Millot, who first noticed the importance of these collections for the conservation of the species, constitutes a starting point of the present analysis. The oldest European bison of the MNHN collection came from the royal menagerie of Versailles. Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton was the first who has published a description of the species, four years before publication of Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus. Then Georges Cuvier, when w
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Owen, David, Laurence Livermore, Quentin Groom, et al. "Towards a scientific workflow featuring Natural Language Processing for the digitisation of natural history collections." Research Ideas and Outcomes 6 (July 3, 2020): e55789. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.6.e55789.

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We describe an effective approach to automated text digitisation with respect to natural history specimen labels. These labels contain much useful data about the specimen including its collector, country of origin, and collection date. Our approach to automatically extracting these data takes the form of a pipeline. Recommendations are made for the pipeline's component parts based on some of the state-of-the-art technologies.Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can be used to digitise text on images of specimens. However, recognising text quickly and accurately from these images can be a challe
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