Just following up on that, we will also be presenting a talk on this at the NatSCA conference in a couple of weeks time! So you can find out more about the project there.
Look forward to seeing you all.
Jen
Jennifer Gallichan
Curadur Bioamrywiaeth Anifeiliaid Di-asgwrn Cefn / Curator Invertebrate Biodiversity
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
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From: The Natural Science Collections Association discussion list <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Paolo Viscardi <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 11 April 2018 11:54
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Subject: Re: Mollusca Types in Great Britain database
N.B. If anyone is interested in seeing the site it's here: https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk/
On 11 April 2018 at 08:36, Jon Ablett <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Mollusca Types in Great Britain
Dear colleagues,
The Mollusca staff of the Natural History Museum, London and the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff have been working to digitally unite the type specimens found in Mollusca collections across Great Britain into one comprehensive database.
Thanks to the John Ellerman Foundation's Regional Museums and Galleries Fund the first phase of our project has now been released, bringing together the type collections of seven partner Museums (Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Glasgow Hunterian, Glasgow Kelvingrove, Exeter and Newcastle).
The curatorial staff from the leading institutions have been able to help research, catalogue and photograph c. 600 primary types to unite them as never before. Our online database also gives examples of handwriting to help identify type material as well as information and resources to assist in tracing historical mollusc collections including an updated Appendix IV from S.P. Dance's 'A History of Shell Collecting' (1986) reproduced with kind permission of the author.
In the near future we will be adding further secondary type specimens from our phase 1 project partners as well as primary type material from the National Museum of Wales. In the longer term we will be adding more UK based type collections as further funding becomes available.
For general enquiries about the site or database, or if you are a UK based museum and would like to know how you can add your type data to our database please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Jonathan Ablett (on behalf of the Mollusca Types in Great Britain Project team)
Jonathan Ablett
Senior Curator in Charge, Mollusca
Division of Invertebrates
Department of Life Sciences
Natural History Museum
London
SW7 5BD
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