[Nhcoll-l] Ranking of largest collections -- HELP

[Hartel, Karsten]

I would suggest that any ranking of US or international museums is an enormous job fraught with lots of interpretations or misinterpretations of any of the information that might be analyzed.  Interpretations of cross discipline data from within museums and between museums would be a very difficult task.  As a simple example how does one verify or compare the value of lot based collections verses individual specimen based.  Note that the total number of MCZ ichthyology specimens is often represented on line as number of lots (171,600) when actual specimens total 1.4 million.

My two cents.

Karsten

Karsten Edward Hartel
Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138
(617) 495-2477 e-mail: hartel at oeb.harvard.edu
http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html








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