[Nhcoll-l] Horrible ;-) taxidermized birds and mammals

[Callomon,Paul]

Unless it is spectacularly rare or a weird morph, any donated specimen here that lacks collection data goes in the "free shells for kids" bin. Life is too short, collections donations too large and frequent, and the likely scientific usefulness of such things too low.
It's sometimes better to let things go; in fact, it's useful to us to do this periodically, lest in the absence of balance our instinct to conserve outmatch our sense of proportion.

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Sergio Montagud
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 7:20 AM
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Horrible ;-) taxidermized birds and mammals


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Hello everyone,

Last week we received some items of taxidermized birds and mammals in a very bad condition. Not only they are bad preserved, with dust and feather/hair fallen, also they have no data about origin, date or taxidermist. There are not interesting species, all are common except five or six that could be considered as rare.

This type of donations is frequent because most people are received now properties of their families that traditionally have these kinds of pieces.

I would ask you if anyone have experienced with these sorts of exx. and try to reuse in other terms. I want to say if they take them, extract the skull, and discard the rest or something like these.  Ideas and experiences are welcome. Evidently, invest time to recover these is not considered.

Thanks a lot

Sergio

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Sergio Montagud Alario
Museu [UV] Història Natural
Universitat de València
e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es<mailto:sergio.montagud at uv.es>
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