Rothschild coup

[Michael Gochfeld]

We should have been around for the great Rothschild collection coup 
which the American Museum and RC Murphy pulled to get the huge 
collection of bird skins out of England because the Crown wouldn't 
forgive some tax debt or something (lots of racy inuendos surround why 
Baron Rothschild needed the money). 

Types have floated around before.  The Audubon types housed at small 
colleges like Vassar have ended up in the custody of other museums which 
presumably could better curate them. 

I agree that it makes it harder to track down specimens if they are 
moved around, but in the end it is probably at least as important if not 
more important that they be secure and protected [until museum curators 
become extinct].

Mike Gochfeld 

 
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