<div dir="ltr"><div>I'll reiterate Karsten's point - lots of people in this email train have used the term 'specimens' when they should have used 'records' (ie specimens/lots) because like the MCZ, these numbers are rarely identical. <br><br>The University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection has 1,175,392 specimens databased as 215,693 records (and an unknown number of undatabased specimens).<br><br></div>-Derek<br><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Hartel, Karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hartel@oeb.harvard.edu" target="_blank">hartel@oeb.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Karsten Edward Hartel<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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