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

[Kairo Z]

I know of a number of colleges that would be more than happy to incorporate
them into the classroom. Please reach out if you would like assistance
rehoming them into education.

Kairo

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 10:13 PM Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> Paul Callomon
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> 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
> *To:* Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Horrible ;-) taxidermized birds and mammals
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> *External.*
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> Hello everyone,
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> 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.
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> This type of donations is frequent because most people are received now
> properties of their families that traditionally have these kinds of pieces.
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> 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.
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> Thanks a lot
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> Sergio
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> Sergio Montagud Alario
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> Museu [UV] Història Natural
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> Universitat de València
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> e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es
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