Humboldt Institute and MOUs

[A. Townsend Peterson]

Sally:

I assume that you are referring to the recent request sent around to most of
us for copies of electronic data regarding specimens from Colombia.
Christian Samper and colleagues in Colombia are mounting a monumental effort
to summarize information existing regarding the biodiversity of their
extremely complex country, and the results of that activity will stimulate
enormously activities of conservation and biodiversity studies in Colombia.
We received the request, and promptly sent them all of our data; we saw no
need for a MOU or convenio or anything like that, because we considered the
request a normal collections query.

Best,

Town Peterson
University of Kansas Natural History Museum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Biological Systematics Discussion List
> [mailto:TAXACOM at cmsa.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Sally Shelton
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 7:21 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list TAXACOM
> Subject: Humboldt Institute and MOUs
>
>
> I am trying to find out more about museums that have some kind of
> MOU with the Humboldt Institute for biological collections data
> sharing vis-a-vis holdings from Colombia (and possibly other
> areas). I need to find out more about this program and anyone's
> impressions of its costs and benefits. Thank you in advance for
> your time and consideration.
>
> Sincerely,
> Sally Shelton, Program Manager
> Office of Collections Programs, Room 414B
> National Museum of Natural History
> Smithsonian Institution
> Washington, DC   20560-0107
> phone (202) 786-2601; FAX (202) 786-2328
> email <Shelton.Sally at nmnh.si.edu>
>