[NHCOLL-L:5650] John R. Preston, mammalogist

[nmccartn]

Hello everyone:

I have just inherited a collection of mammals from the Museum of  
Discovery in Little Rock.  Many of them were collected by John R.  
Preston, who apparently had worked for a short time at our museum  
sometime before 1970. No one here remembers him.

  Many of the interesting rodent skulls/skins are unidentified, but  
with a number (x-*) which might be the prep number from MD, but which  
are not in their otherwise excellent log.  That museum is shedding its  
collections and going into the exhibit phase of existence, and none of  
the current people there ever met Preston. Nor have I.

I find one reference to him: The Mammals of Harmon County, Oklahoma  
1970. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science for 1968, 49:42-60.

I wonder if anyone knows where more of his rodents are reposited,  
collecting expeditions, or anything else about him for my files.  It  
would be wonderful to be able to salvage these specimens.  These  
specimens seem to be from Colorado or "out west" somewhere, judging  
from others with data.

Thank you.

NMcc



Nancy Glover McCartney, PhD
Curator of Zoology
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