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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">To “vouch for” something or someone means “to support their claim to truth”. If I vouch for your trustworthiness, I support your claim to that quality.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">Voucher specimens also support claims to truth that are either published or in some way codified. For example: if I write a paper about mollusks from Bermuda, then all the specimens I mention in it
become vouchers for that paper. In the future, anyone who is interested can look at them and see what I was working with.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">Vouchers need not be for a published work, but usually refer to a defined study or event. All the material collected in a field survey, for example, are vouchers for that survey – even if nothing about
it is published. They support the claim that the survey was carried out and that those species were collected.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">Specimens in a general collection, even fine ones, are therefore not vouchers until someone has said something specifically about them or they belong to a named group such as material from an expedition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">A loose definition of “voucher”, then, might be “material evidence for a claim to truth”.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">Paul Callomon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA"> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lennart Lennuk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 3, 2022 3:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] voucher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Hi!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Just to clear it up in my mind. What is word „voucher“ used for?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">There is voucher specimens – that means top specimens of a certain species?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Then vouchers when we speak a parts of specimen, like feathers, bloodsamples – is it only in zoology?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">And then also eDNA Voucher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Sorry for a little messy wording.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Best regards!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Lennart Lennuk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Head of collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Estonian Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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