gmnh IS NOT AN ACRONYM

[Stuart Fullerton]

yes john - but what the h is is a set of intials for?? lets try to help
the lady out.

in these days of mass acronym/initials it is often easy to lose sight of
the forest for the trees.  i will note that what ever it is, it is not in
the arnett/samuelson/nishida  "insect and spider collections of the
world".

actually i think it is refered to as a coden

that cuts out a whole lot of things.

rof

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, John Bruner wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Liz McGhee wrote:
> >         I am looking for a museum with the acronym gmnh.  Is anyone
> > familiar with this?  Thanks.
> > Liz
> > M.Elizabeth McGhee - Asst. Curator
> > Mammal, Bird, Reptile and Amphibian Collections
> > Museum of Natural History
> > University of Georgia
> > Athens, GA  30602-1882
> Dear Liz McGhee:
>
>         "GMNH" is an abbreviation NOT an acronym.
>
> For a list of museum codes try the following website maintained by the
> American Society of Ichthtyologists and Herpetologists.
>
> http://seahorse.ims.usm.edu/~musweb/asih_codes.cgi
>
> The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) established
> a list of standardized institutional codes
> to be used to reference individual ichthyological archival collections
> worldwide. GCRL maintains an updated version
> of this list that includes current status of these collections, hyperlinks
> to websites, and email addresses of contacts.
> This list has been published in Copeia.
>
>        Leviton, A. E., R. H. Gibbs, E. Heal, and C. E. Dawson. 1985.
> Standards in Herpetology and Ichthyology:
>        Part I. Standard Symbolic Codes for Institutional Resource
> Collections in Herepetology and Ichthyology.
>        Copeia 1985(3):802-832.
>
> and subsequently emended
>
>        A. E. Leviton and R. H. Gibbs. 1988. Standards in Herpetology and
> Ichthyology Standard Symbolic Codes
>        for Institution Resource Collections in Hereptology and Ichthyology.
> Supplement No. 1: Additions and
>        Corrections. Copeia 1988(1):280-282.
>
> Provisional codes for new collections together with summary data for US and
> Canadian Collections have been
> published in Copeia as well and are indicated by an asterisk.
>
>        Poss, S. G. and B. B. Collette. 1995. Second Survey of Fish
> Collections in the United States and Canada.
>        Copeia 1995(1):48-70.
>
> Information on European collections has been published.
>
>        Kottelat, M., J. Nielsen, and H. Nijssen. 1993. Survey of
> ichthyological resources in European museusm and
>        collections. Societas Europea Ichthyologorum, Verlag-Freidrich Pfeil,
> Munich, Germany.
>
>
>         John
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Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod
Collections (UCFC), Biology Dept. University of Central Florida, Orlando,
Florida, 32816, USA. stuartf at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu