Fw: herbarium specimen valuation- and insect collection?

[Prirodoslovni muzej Split]

> Dear friends
> This topic is very interesting to me, for I am curator on insect
collection
> and I try to make new collection.
> I have two questions:
> 1. I always asked myself how to valuate old (historical) insect
collection,
> for ensurance purposes.
> It is coleopterological collection with updated insect scientific names to
> A. Winkler's Catalogus coleopterorum without more data at specimens. So it
> needs redetermination. You can find there insect name and widely defined
> locality, sometimes with date of collecting or name of determinators.
> I red somewhere that holotype specimen can be mesured in thousands of USD,
> for its scientific value...
> So, I need some measurment instrument for ensurance purpose, please.
>
> 2. I am interested in valuation of new collected, pinned and mounted
> specimens like you did it with herbarium.
> Can you tell me the same price list for insects, please. I am interested
to
> know how to valuate my work.
> Best wishes!
>
>
> Boze Kokan
> Natural History Museum Split
> p.p.376
> 21 000 Split
> Croatia
> Europe
> old address: primust at st.tel.hr                new address:
> Boze.Kokan at public.st.carnet.hr
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas S. Lander" <nickl at CALM.WA.GOV.AU>
> To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:57 AM
> Subject: Re: herbarium specimen valuation
>
>
> > Here in Australia we have a national agreed schedule of costs of
preparing
> > and loding a herbarium specimen. It goes for each specimen as follows:
> >
> >         Collection                      $14
> >         Identification          $13
> >         Databasing                      $ 5
> >         Preparation                     $16
> >         Annual maintenance      $ 4
> >
> >         TOTAL   per specimen  AUD $52
> >
> > Useful background can be found in the following publication:
> >
> > Armstrong, J.A. (1992). The funding base for Australia's biological
> > collections. 'Australian Biologist' 5(1): 80-88.
> >
> > Nicholas Lander
> > Western Australian Herbarium (PERTH)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taxacom Discussion List [mailto:]On Behalf Of
> > Alexander Krings
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 5:08 AM
> > To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
> > Subject: herbarium specimen valuation
> >
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am posting the following inquiry on behalf of a colleague who is
> preparing
> > an article on herbaria for a state park newsletter.  Not having had
> > experience with the purchase/sale of herbarium specimens myself, I
wonder
> if
> > some folks on this list may be able to provide her with more detailed
> > thoughts/comments based on their own experiences.  Thank you in advance
> for
> > any assistance you may be able to provide.  Her note follows...
> >
> >
> > "One of the items I wanted to mention in my article for the state park
> > newsletter was the monetary value of an herbarium specimen.  Although my
> > perspective is that each specimen is priceless, that doesn't necessarily
> > mean anything to some of the state park personnel. Establishing an
> > herbarium as an asset with some dollar value may present a more
> > understandable starting point than its intrinsic educational or
> > scientific value.
> >
> > I know that some herbaria have been sold, but don't have access to what
> > the value was per sheet. Do you know what some private herbaria have
> > sold for? What is the cost for a mounting sheet?  an estimate of the
> > cost for labor to collect, press, mount and accession a collection?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Jame Amoroso, Botanist
> > North Carolina Natural Heritage Program
> > Division of Parks and Recreation
> > Department of Environment and Natural Resources
> > 1615 MSC, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1615
> > 919/715-8700; jame.amoroso at ncmail.net
> > http://www.ncsparks.net/nhp/"
> >
> > ____________________________
> > Alexander Krings
> > Curator and Plant Taxonomist
> > Herbarium (NCSC), Department of Botany
> > Campus Box 7612
> > North Carolina State University
> > Raleigh, NC 27695-7612
> >
> > alexander_krings at ncsu.edu
> > 919.515.2700
> > 919.515.3436 (fax)
> >
>