[Nhcoll-l] FW: Geological Lost and Found etc

[Andrew Haycock]

Dear NHCOLLS subscribers,

Some of you may be interested in the geological resources available on the GCG (Geological Curators Group) website (see below for links).

Many thanks,

Kind regards
Andrew

From: Cindy Howells <Cindy.Howells at museumwales.ac.uk>
Sent: 15 December 2022 11:01
To: Cindy Howells <Cindy.Howells at museumwales.ac.uk>
Subject: Lost and Found etc

Dear GCG members and subscribers,

In order to pass on some light Christmas reading, I'd like to draw your attention to a few areas of our website that you might not have yet discovered.

Firstly our Lost, Stolen and Strayed area. This is a continution of our incredibly popular, and useful, Lost and Found pages which featured in the newsletter and journal for many years. It was, and is, a way of advertising for the whereabouts of missing specimens or collections that might have been transferred across museums, or between curators or collectors over the years. Obviously these sorts of databases are only effective when they are known about and used, so we have populated our new 'Lost, Stolen and Strayed' page with all the previous entries from the last 48 years. Clicking on the links will take you into a pdf of the appropriate journal. I encourage all curators to have a look at the current list just in case something on there rings a bell, and also to create entries of your own if you have appropriate lost or found material. All the instructions can be found here: Welcome to Lost, Stolen, and Strayed - The Geological Curators' Group (geocurator.org)<https://www.geocurator.org/collections/148-lost-stolen-and-strayed/553-welcome-to-lost-stolen-and-strayed>

Secondly, we have a small database of label styles and handwriting which can be found here: Collector, Dealer and Institution labels - The Geological Curators' Group (geocurator.org)<https://www.geocurator.org/resources/53-collector-and-dealer-labels>
Again this should be a very valuable resource when researching old collections, so do please have a look through it. We'll really love it if you'd consider creating entries of your own when working through historical material. It would be fantastic to be able to add more of the brief collectors' biographies with samples of their handwriting and labels.

We are always actively trying to enhance our website with more resources and features of interest, so do please get in touch if you have any useful content, ideas, suggestions or even offers of help!
Our GCG community has always been a very friendly place, and we aim to support and help wherever we can. Please mention GCG to any of your colleagues or fellow geologists to whom it might be appropriate - our membership fees are very reasonable, and include access to all of our published journals as well as membership discounts for meetings.

Remember we're not just for museum curators, but also aim to embrace the wider community of all those interested in geology collections, conservation, documentation, preparation, exhibitions, photography, geoconservation, history of geology, geotourism, volunteers, students, teachers and many, many more, both in the UK and around the world. Basically we are all interested in the care of geological specimens both in the museum and outside it!

We wish you all a very happy Christmas,

Cindy, on behalf of the GCG committee

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