[Nhcoll-l] Name Change: Slater Museum of Nat Hist now Puget Sound Museum of Natural History

[Peter Wimberger]

Dear Museum community,

The name of the University of Puget Sound's Slater Museum of Natural
History has reverted to its original name, the Puget Sound Museum of
Natural History. After a multi-year process, the President recommended this
change to the Board of Trustees who approved it at their recent meeting.
The University’s press release can be found here
<https://www.pugetsound.edu/stories/university-puget-sound-remove-name-former-professor-museum-natural-history>
and a Seattle Times story about the renaming, here
<https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/university-of-puget-sound-to-remove-name-of-eugenics-professor-from-museum/>
.

James Slater, whose collections started the museum, also taught eugenics
into the 1950s. The university determined that Slater's long history of
teaching eugenics at Puget Sound did not align with the university's
mission and values. Please be patient as we work to change the name on our
various accounts and in biodiversity portals. Please direct questions or
comments to me (phwimberger at pugetsound.edu), or see you at SPNHC!

Thanks,
Peter Wimberger


*Director, Puget Sound Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, Washington, USA*
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