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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As I wrote to Mr. Kemp under separate cover, and as Carol’s update below makes clear, University-based museums are not to be discounted. (Especially one as pre-eminent and venerable as the
UMMZ).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I’d also like to double-down on Carol’s comment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“…realize some museums don't have every collection at their institution up yet on VN…”<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Her statement applies to all manner of centralized data repositories. But just as an example, The UF herp collection has, to my recollection, 273,000 specimens (I am a fish
guy) and VN reports 169,000. Why the discrepancy?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We are all too busy….!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Back to it…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Rob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Robert H. Robins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Senior Biologist/Collection Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Division of Ichthyology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Florida Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1659 Museum Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PO Box 117800<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Gainesville, FL 32611-7800<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Office: (352) 273-1957<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Fax: (352) 846-0287<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:rhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu">rhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.flmnh.ufl.edu_&d=AwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=5pJEQwWcPcyWbRqM-xcnbOqr-dChuNj_z3ns_pnytJI&s=diADrlO6EgQDas263bCkcaL8LyFvUWbpWVnMrFbqgac&e=">www.flmnh.ufl.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Carol Spencer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Christopher Kemp<br>
<b>Cc:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Ranking of largest collections -- HELP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And one update, UMMZ says this: <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;background:#FEFEFD">195,469 (through catalogue number UMMZ 240,000) catalogued lots representing 431,316 individual specimens</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#444444;background:#FEFEFD">so that puts them in second!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Carol Spencer <<a href="mailto:atrox10@gmail.com" target="_blank">atrox10@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You should be able to put this together somewhat through the numbers of specimens listed on VertNet or on GBIF (or at various museum's websites, and realize some museums don't have every collection at their institution up yet on VN): <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__portal.vertnet.org_publishers&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=A6oOc9q8Cdc7hAEddUI0J1DtjGxTzxcVG4TZYS2bZt4&s=lyzK8FxyIe0tENvZpyG-d5WaK2KdQNlQM0dlvAMFMyQ&e=" target="_blank">http://portal.vertnet.org/publishers</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1) USNM - 566K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) KU- 335K (334,913)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4) MCZ - 324K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5) CAS- 310K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7) MVZ - 270K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8) UMMZ - 197K<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I apologize if I missed anyone in that ranking!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You'll have to add up all the rest of the collections at these places to get the full picture.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Christopher Kemp <<a href="mailto:cjkemp@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjkemp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi again all, I was really impressed and excited by the feedback for my project collecting examples of newly-described species with long shelf lives. It was great! (But keep them coming too.) I had another question. I don't know if this
is empirically known or somewhat debatable, but I'm trying to make a list of the top 5 natural history collections in the US, and in the world. So, two lists. And I mean in terms of size, or number of specimens. Please weigh in. I'm assuming NMNH, AMNH, the
Field for the US, but who's next? And in the world, I just don't know: the NMNH, the BMNH, the AMNH? I don't know. Share your thoughts. I'm at
<a href="mailto:cjkemp@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjkemp@gmail.com</a>, or respond on the listserv. Thanks in advance! -- ck<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.<br>
Staff Curator of Herpetology & Researcher<br>
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology<br>
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building<br>
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3160<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.<br>
Staff Curator of Herpetology & Researcher<br>
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology<br>
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building<br>
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3160<br>
<a href="mailto:atrox10@gmail.com" target="_blank">atrox10@gmail.com</a> and <a href="mailto:atrox@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">
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