more attacks on taxonomy and systematics

[Scott L. Gardner]

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From: cdrwxwng at webtv.net [mailto:cdrwxwng at webtv.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:24 PM


   The Herbarium at U of I is also suffering financialy. Last semester
at Kirkwood CC in Cedar Rapids, I enrolled in a Botany class. At some
point in the class, we had a field trip to the U of I herbarium and the
main botanist said that the herbarium there is scheduled to be
terminated, and the specimens will have to be transferred to the ISU
herbarium. Something like 100,000 specimens will be lost in the process
because of a limited storage capacity at the ISU herbarium. From what I
gather, the reason this is happening is because big wigs with the
checkbooks don't see the point in having a collection of dried plant
specimens.  
   Sounds a lot like the Nebraska Museum's crisis, except, thankfuly on
a smaller scale.

   Randy Scheiner




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Scott L. Gardner
Curator of Parasitology
The Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0514

e-mail: slg at unl.edu
Tel: 402-472-3334
Fax: 402-472-8949
Web: http://hwml.unl.edu
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