<div dir="ltr"><div>It also depends on how one defines specimens.</div><div><br></div><div>Some define a specimen as a catalog record, i.e. 1 <i>or more</i> specimens since some catalog records are for 'lots' e.g. 2 ants on 1 pin, or 15 spiders in 1 vial.</div><div><br></div><div>Thus, you will get very different numbers if you tally catalog records based on specimens, compared to tallying the actual specimens themselves.</div><div><br></div><div>-Derek<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:16 AM Bentley, Andrew Charles <<a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu">abentley@ku.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is extremely difficult to estimate but estimates range into the billions (3-5 billion in various publications). We can really only track digitized records and the best way to do this is through GBIF where specimen based records are
around 216 million (observation records are close to 2 billion in comparison!!).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope that helps<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andy<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Dyche Hall<br>
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On Behalf Of </b>Lennart Lennuk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2022 3:51 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] How many specimens<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="ET">Hi!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="ET">Does anybody have lately calculated how many specimens are there in the natural history collections?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="ET">Best regards!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="ET">Lennart Lennuk<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black" lang="ET">Head of collections<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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