<from Bill Pettitt, FENSCORE webmaster>
The FENSCORE [Federation for Natural Sciences COllection REsearch]
Committee, with sponsorship by Manchester Museum and the Museums and
Galleries Commission, have now posted the 'national' register of natural
science collections as a searchable database.
There are over 15,000 entries, covering most of the UK, although currently
the South West is under-represented, and Northern Ireland is absent
(although we hope to add it soon)
The URL is http://www.man.ac.uk/fenscore
It is good to be able to announce this, as at long last it makes readily
available the results of dedicated efforts by more than two hundred natural
science curators who over the last two decades have laboured to gather the
information.
I welcome any comments or suggestions about this site; it does not have
lots of pretty graphics, but concentrates on providing useful content.
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