<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues:<div><br></div><div>May I have a sense of what is the guestimated proportion of archival material (not specimens) available on the web vs. not available on the web in natural history collections?</div><div><br></div><div>Background: Currently, I am involved in several collaborations involving archival records of generally deceased colleagues connected to natural history collections or other natural history related endeavors. My strategy (if web searches fail) is contacting colleagues at those collections (or their archival units) and ask for help as I believe that a substantial amount of documents are not yet available on the web (and perhaps will not be in a long time).</div><div><br></div><div>If you have guestimates on the proportion of archival material (not specimens) available on the web vs. not available on the web in natural history collections, please send me an email to</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:blayjorge@gmail.com">blayjorge@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Gratefully,</div><div><br></div><div>Jorge<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__blaypublishers.com&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=1BvyZmMucZZ06KZuQWrBIAhl-I-XKB32QQ2bsIU5PYU&s=HLj8r_N7Qh43uYpJofIC8j9ASmOK5Y2Hg-k82Ye6Li0&e=" target="_blank">blaypublishers.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><p align="left" style="text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.
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