Hi Milan

>just few thoughts;
>Advantages:
>Spliting protects the collection from being entirely destroyed in, say,
>bombardment in war. I know of several collections that were lost here in
>Europe this way.

Those who are responsible (sat all levels) should have been tried &
convicted as war criminals.

>Certain groups of molluscs should be stored where best specialist are. Good
>coll. of Arctic Buccinids should be kept in Russia, Norway, Canada... not in
>Senegal or India.

Preferable. Many workers may have trouble getting funds to travel to
see collections. It IS possible to borrow large numbers of specimens,
butm is a pain at both ends.

>Disadvantages: personaly I dislike splitting of any collection (despite the
>above advantages) because I feel it is like someone would smashed
>Michelangelo's statue of David and one part of the statue would be exposed in
>Louvre Museum- Paris, another in Ufizzi Gallery- Florence...A good collection
>is a life-work and should remain in one piece.

Very true. A decent collection is a coherent entity, with its own
cataloging, history etc, and I do not like to hear of their being
broken-up.

Donating to institutions is not necessarily a safe move. Wasn't it
Princeton that popened its doors to the public to take its
collections away?

--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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