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Similar to that train of thought, our Pelagic Invertebrate
Collection at SIO houses over 200,000,000 specimens in over 135,000
catalogued, whole zooplankton samples.<br>
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Cheers, <br>
H.J.<br>
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<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>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:04 AM,
Hartel, Karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hartel@oeb.harvard.edu" target="_blank">hartel@oeb.harvard.edu</a>></span>
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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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">My
two cents.</span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Karsten</span>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Karsten
Edward Hartel</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Curatorial
Associate in Ichthyology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">26
Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:%28617%29%20495-2477" value="+16174952477" target="_blank">(617)
495-2477</a> e-mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hartel@oeb.harvard.edu" target="_blank">hartel@oeb.harvard.edu</a>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html</a></span><span
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Derek S. Sikes, Curator of Insects<br>
Associate Professor of Entomology<br>
University of Alaska Museum<br>
907 Yukon Drive<br>
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dssikes@alaska.edu" target="_blank">dssikes@alaska.edu</a><br>
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phone: 907-474-6278<br>
FAX: 907-474-5469<br>
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University of Alaska Museum - search
287,000 digitized arthropod records<br>
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