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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cindy Opitz<br />SPNHC Secretary<br />email: secretary@spnhc.org<br />web: spnhc.org<br />Museum of Natural History<br />11 Macbride Hall<br />The University of Iowa<br />Iowa City IA 52242<br />(319) 335-0481</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Breda Činč Juhant" <bjuhant@pms-lj.si><br />Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:46am<br />To: president@spnhc.org, secretary@spnhc.org<br />Cc: secretary@spnhc.org<br />Subject: NATHIST conference September<br /><br /></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As both Director of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History and board member of ICOM NATHIST, responsible for organizing the conference, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to join us at the virtual conference. The conference theme will be THE OLDEST NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS AS A CHALLENGE OF RESEARCH AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS. It is a great opportunity for natural history institutions to come virtually together to share news and information in these exciting and unpredictable times. The programme will be filled with opportunities not only to think deeply about our practice, but also to make important and useful face-to-face meetings: in the COVID-19 situation they will be virtual, but at least more accessible to everyone.</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It would be a great pleasure if members of The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections join our conference. It is still time to encourage your members to be active: <a href="https://www.icomnathist2021.com/index.php/abstracts">https://www.icomnathist2021.com/index.php/abstracts</a>.</p>
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