you have rejected everything

Thu Sep 26 07:38:27 CDT 2002

i hve sent in any form for the last 6 months.  what a crock!  "black balling" is not nice!

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> i am not sure we do encourage it any more.  but when working with
> students, we seem to continue to start them down that path in a effort
> to get them out of the living room, out into the field, hands on
> biodiversity, and give them something they collected to work with to
> foster interest.  i do here.
>
> now at the end of my life, i find that i am still processing the remains
> of my personal collection from over the years into the collection here.
> in fact it is the basis on which this regional collection is built. now
> in excess of 200,000 specimens.  had i never started with that personal
> collection we would not be doing now what we are.
>
> flip a coin and get on with the work. some of us chop wood, some of us
> build houses, and some of us tear them down if they are "antiques" and
> some of us are preservationists.  there is more than one way to skin a
> lab cat.
>
> cheers!  rof
>
> Tim Lowrey wrote:
>
> >   I have an excellent recent example of the vulnerability of private
> > collections. I have a friend who is an avid amateur botanist.  He
> > amassed an important private herbarium of northern New Mexico plants.
> > The collection represented many years of effort. He always resisted
> > putting the specimens in a properly curated herbarium. Rather, he
> > kept it in his home in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the
> > Cerro Grande fire reduced his home and his private herbarium to ashes
> > along with a significant portion of other homes in Los Alamos.  All
> > his years of effort went up in flames and these important specimens
> > are lost to science. His current opinion of private collections now
> > matches that expressed by Anita.
> >
> > >Are we moving back in time?  Encouraging private collections
> > >undermines everything we have tried to accomplish in terms of
> > >specimen preservation for teaching, research, and future endeavors!
> > >Museums are the recognized format for specimen preservation with the
> > >experience, access to object conservation research, an environmental
> > >controls that cannot be achieved in private collections.  Why would
> > >anyone encourage private collections!
> > >
> > >
> > >________________________
> > >Anita F. Cholewa, Ph.D.
> > >Curator of Temperate Plants
> > >Bell Museum of Natural History
> > >University of Minnesota
> > >1445 Gortner Ave
> > >St Paul MN (USA)
> > >http://www.cbs.umn.edu/herbarium/vascularplantpage.htm
> >
> > --
> > Tim Lowrey, Ph.D.
> > Curator, UNM Herbarium
> > Museum of Southwestern Biology
> > Department of  Biology
> > University of New Mexico
> > Albuquerque, NM 87131
> > Tel: 505-277-2604
> > Fax: 505-277-6079
>
> --
> Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod
> Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO
> Box 162368, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2368, USA.
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Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO
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