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Natural History

Links to related information on other sites:

Collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
http://www.kew.org/collections/index.html

Guidelines for the Care of Natural History Collections
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/spnhc/spnhc1.html

Storage Methods for Taxidermy Collections
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/
wn/wn14/wn14-2/wn14-205.html

Fluid-Stored Specimens
http://www.si.edu/mci/english/research/past_projects/fluid_stored_specimens.html

Removing Wet Specimens from Long-Term Storage in Formalin (Conserve-O-Gram 11/1) - (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/11-01.pdf

Storage Concerns for Geological Collections (Conserve-O-Gram 11/2) - (An Adobe PDF file)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/ conserveogram/11-02.pdf


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