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Treasures in tins: historical packaging in natural history collections 罐子里的宝藏:自然史收藏中的历史包装

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1495

Linzi Harvey

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Historical collections in museums: the legacy of William Buckland’s ‘Geological Museum’ collection at Oxford and its potential as a teaching resource today 博物馆中的历史藏品:威廉·巴克兰在牛津大学的“地质博物馆”藏品的遗产及其作为今天教学资源的潜力

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1498

S. Newell

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Keeping old giants at the service of a local community: The Arroyo del Vizcaíno collection (Sauce, Uruguay) 让古老的巨人为当地社区服务:阿罗约·德尔Vizcaíno收藏(乌拉圭沙司)

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1496

M. di Giacomo, Martín Batallés, Luciano Varela, P. Tambusso, Lucía Clavijo, R. Fariña

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The history, state and reinterpretation of the palaeontological collection at Folkestone Museum 福克斯通博物馆古生物收藏的历史、现状和重新诠释

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1499

Philip Hadland

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The long walk from the Carboniferous: mysterious fossil tracks are rediscovered after 87 years

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1500

C. Mehling, R. Buta

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An overlooked contributor to palaeontology—the preparator Richard Hall (b. 1839) and his work on an armoured dinosaur and a giant sea dragon 一位被忽视的古生物学贡献者——理查德·霍尔(Richard Hall，生于1839年)和他关于甲胄恐龙和巨型海龙的研究

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1497

M. Graham, J. Radley, D. Lomax

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Matthew Alastair Parkes 马修·阿拉斯泰尔·帕克斯

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1501

N. Monaghan

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The Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections - TxVP 德克萨斯脊椎动物古生物收藏- TxVP

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1493

V. Sagebiel

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The benefits of regional collection-based undergraduate projects: an example from Nottingham 基于区域收集的本科项目的好处:以诺丁汉为例

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1492

A. S. Smith, F. Owen, E. Strickson, J. Horne, Z. C. Wiggins

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An unusual papier-mâché replica of a fossil (?) from the Free Church of Scotland College collection 这是苏格兰自由教会学院收藏的化石(?)的一个不寻常的纸<s:1>复制品

Geological Curator Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.55468/gc1488

M. A. Taylor, L. I. Anderson

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