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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I would be very interested in hearing your replies as well. My institution (the New Jersey State Museum) is multi-disciplinary and the Fine Arts side always pushes for Deeds of Gift (our transfer of title form)
for every object, and for donor credit lines for everything we use on an exhibition. I had to explain the concept of exhibit props to them. They are currently in power, for lack of a better way of saying it, and it is rather infuriating to deal with that for
Natural History specimens that were field collected legally in public land for which management does not require collecting permits.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">For example, there are county parks that freely permit the public to collect fossils within their sites. When a donor brings a fossil collected in such localities, we just have them sign the deed of gift, but
if one of us staff scientists collect on Museum time, it becomes a problem—we collected it for the museum and were funded by the museum to do so, so we don’t hold title, and because the park publicly and freely permits collection there as a standing policy,
there is no one individual recognized as an authority to sign anything over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Then there are insects collected on museum grounds, for another example. Does the collector own them? Does the Museum? Does the State’s department of Treasury? All these legal issues and protocols are well and
good when you deal on Fine Arts and purchase or accept 10 paintings a year, but when you’re getting hundreds of specimens in (as you do in Natural History) it is quite a burden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m most interested to learn how others deal with this, whether in the UK, Europe, elsewhere, or particularly in the USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Rod<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Rodrigo Pellegrini</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Registrar, Natural History Bureau</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Ashe, Eimear<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 28, 2022 9:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Nhcoll-l] transfer of title for field-collection NH specimens<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just wondering, do your institutions complete <i>Transfer of Title</i> forms (or an equivalent legal form) for
<u>field-collected</u> natural history specimens? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The National Museum of Ireland does this for all of its collections, but the Natural History Division are wondering at the logic of completing a
<i>Transfer of Title</i> form when a specimen was roadkill, washed up on a beach, collected in a park etc. That is, does the finder/collector hold title to a found object in a public space (or even private space, to complicate things), and can that title be
transferred to us?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would really appreciate emails from you outlining how you manage these acquisitions, particularly if you are attempting to follow the UK Spectrum standard, as we do in the NMI.
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<p class="MsoNormal">If there are online resources relating to this issue, please do share!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Eimear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Eimear Ashe,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Documentation Officer (Natural History),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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