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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Ruy,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">is this request on individual
(countless) objects, or on acquisitions (inventory units)? Surely
nobody counted the fat cells before the housekeeper wiped (and
discarded) Beuy's famous Fettecke (fat corner), even though it was
known that he used five kilogrammes of butter to produce it. One
of the larger German collections also had to use an inventory
system that was originally designed to register fine arts, but
also here inventory units were entered (and number of specimens if
countable).</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hope this helps</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 10.04.2019 um 18:32 schrieb Ruy
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colleagues,</span></p>
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Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">As you are aware, on
September 2<sup>nd</sup> last
year the Brazilian National Museum palace (in Rio) burned
down but not everything
housed in it was lost. Currently rescue parties recover
specimens which escaped
the fire either intact or with some degree of damage, on a
daily basis.
Evidently the disaster sparked a series of investigations by
Brazilian
Authorities (mostly still under way). </span></p>
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Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US"> The
Brazilian Federal Audit Court (<i>Tribunal de Contas da
União</i> - <i>TCU</i>), for instance, demands the Museum
to produce a full annual inventory of collections. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.4pt;margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">The Audit Court insists
that the Museum
disobeyed the law by not implementing complete annual
inventories, invoking a
law from 2009 (see link below) which was quite evidently
designed by someone
who cared about art museums. To the best of our knowledge
you can count statues
and pictures by Picasso etc. on the wall with some
precision, but not
individual diatoms in every vial, plants on every voucher,
pinned insects in
every drawer.</span></p>
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Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">We have pretty much
ceased our research to cope
with this unusual demand for overly meticulous inventory
from the Audit Court,
to the best of our knowledge unprecedented in natural
history museums
worldwide.</span></p>
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0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">With the aforementioned
pointlessness for
annual inventory in natural history museums, could you, as
an experient
curator/director/researcher (and maybe some of your peers we
don´t have e-mails
of) kindly send us a letter saying so and how your
institution deals with
Museum input-output? Could you please inform if you do an
annual inventory of
your collection? This will be of great help for us.</span></p>
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Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Link to Law
11.904/2009: </span><a
href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2009/Lei/L11904.htm"
style="color:blue" moz-do-not-send="true"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2009/Lei/L11904.htm</span></a><span
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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kind regards!</span></p>
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Roman",serif">Ruy José Válka Alves, Curator, R-Herbarium.</p>
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J. V. Alves</b><span
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Titular, PhD, <b>Curador do
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de Florística e
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Nacional, Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro,</span><br
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da Boa Vista s./no., São
Cristóvão,</span><br
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Rio
de Janeiro, RJ, 20940-040,
BRASIL,</span><br
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"<i>Never
put away a specimen
unlabeled, not even for an
hour, you may forget it or
die.</i>" - Elliott Coues
- </span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:italic">Field
and General Ornithology</span><span
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york, times, serif"
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style="font-size:15.555556297302246px">For
herbarium-related
subjects please visit <a
href="http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/dptbot/herbario.html"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/dptbot/herbario.html</a>
or e-mail </span></font></span><span
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href="mailto:herbarior@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">herbarior@gmail.com</a></span><span
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