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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/23/22 12:17 PM, Efrat Haberman
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font
face="arial, sans-serif">I would like to consult with you
about h</font></span>ow do<span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> you make the </span><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">division</span><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> between the education
collection and the permanent collection?</span>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">What are the <span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">parameters</span><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span>for the decision if an
object belongs to each of the collections? </font></div>
<div>Does your criteria for putting an object in the educational
collection are:<br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px">Lack of information</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A
specimen that you already have in the collection </span><br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Its
condition</span></li>
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<p>Very briefly: both our teaching collection and our outreach
collection are largely composed of specimens in category #1.
Basically, if we have good data on a specimen, it goes into the
research collection and stays there. The small proportion of
specimens that are exceptions are almost all category #2, common
species for which we have large numbers of research-grade
specimens. There is a VERY small number of specimens purchased
strictly for display purposes that are research-grade but kept as
displays (outreach). Nothing can be in more than one collection,
as all three are physically separate. Damaged specimens may be
kept in the research collection, but not in the others.<br>
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<p>Peace,<br>
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Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html">https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html</a>
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82</pre>
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