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Karen Reeds
>Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:13:28 -0400
>From: "Lauren B. Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Buying Specimens ?
>
>Hello Museum List!
>
>I have a friend who works for a small non-profit organization, which
>has a generous donor hoping to give a collection of "Rare African
>Taxidermied Specimens". I don't have any details from her, and have
>advised that she seek all the documentation, and perhaps check in
>with the governing agencies that document and assess such specimens
>before accepting the donation into her organization's possession.
>
>I write to our list to find if there might be any interest in the
>museum community in potentially purchasing such specimens (given
>they are appropriately documented, of course). Does anyone know of
>museums that purchase already-taxidermied specimens? Or have any
>experience with such matters?
>
>Thanks for all your collective wisdom!
>
>lauren b. allen
>u of pittsburgh ctr for learning in out of school environments
>
--
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2009
Exhibition guide, 30 pp., available from
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
Guest Curator, Botanica Magnifica: Photographs by Jonathan Singer
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, 2012
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