28 July 05
Long Road Out of the Cabinets
There is a huge amount of information in the world’s natural history museums that is languishing in drawers and cabinets which are rarely seen. Slowly some of this material is being made accessible via the Web, but it’s a long haul, especially with current funding priorities. Here is a story about the hopes of the Florida Museum of Natural History to create a national butterfly database out of their immense collection of some 3.5 million specimens.
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