And here are links to a few lists of museum acronyms:
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/conus/catalogue/abbrev.php
http://www.scallop.nl/ACRONYMY.htm
http://research.calacademy.org/sites/research.calacademy.org/files/Departments/ent/sphecidae/Institutional_abbreviations.pdf
http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/museums/abbrev.html
> Dear Charlie,
>
> It seems to me that in this digital world, such
> ambiguity can wreak considerable havoc.
>
> The Florida Museum of Natural History was known
> as FLMNH for years, but not long ago they
> officially changed the acronym to UF for
> catalogued museum lots so as to avoid confusion
> with Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History
> (FMNH). Thus FLMNH 123123 became UF 123123
> overnight and confusion with FMNH 123123 was made far less likely.
>
> On the other hand, if someone is looking for USNM
> 123123 and can't find it because it's now NMNH
> 123123, we have a potential problem. I suppose,
> however, that systems can have functional
> redundancy and allow either acronym to access the unique lot.
>
> Harry
>
>
> I days of pure digital At 12:46 AM 10/5/2014, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>And then there is the acronym CMNH which I have seen used for the
>> Carnegie
>>Museum of Natural History and also for the Cleveland Museum of Natural
>>History and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and all are within
>>several hours drive of each other. The Carnegie Museum now used CM, which
>>could still apply to any of these institutions.
>>
>>Best solution is to define the acronyms in the paper where they are used.
>>
>> > I see no problem with this match-up.
>> >
>> > Harry
>> >
>> >
>> > At 05:34 PM 10/4/2014, worldwide wrote:
>> >>Would the new Smithsonian museum name then not
>> >>be confused with National Museum of Natural
>> >>History (France)? If the acronym for the
>> >>National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) is
>> >>changed to NMNH, it is still different that
>> >>National Museum of Natural History (France) MNHN
>> >>for Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Confusing at best...
>> >>
>> >>Rich
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>At 04:57 PM 10/4/2014, you wrote:
>> >>>Other nitpickers among us,
>> >>>
>> >>>I take it, based on Internet propaganda, that
>> >>>the United States National Museum should now be
>> >>>referred to as the National Museum of Natural
>> >>>History. This is "our" division of the
>> >>>Smithsonian Institution in the nation's capital.
>> >>>
>> >>>For formal taxonomic purposes, does the
>> >>>time-honored acronym, USNM, survive the
>> >>>revisionists', or has it been "emended" to NMNH?
>> >>>
>> >>>Harry
>> >>>
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