Re: MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND CLIMATIC CHANGE (posted for L. Werdelin)

[N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx (N. MacLeod)]

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 09:21:11 +0100
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From: Lars Werdelin <werdelin@nrm.se>
Subject: Re: MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AND CLIMATIC CHANGE
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At 10.20 1995-11-08 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello,
>Is there anybody who knows about current or past projects, where
>recent or past (Holocene or older) environmental changes have been
>demonstrated mainly with the help of museum collections ?
>
>We are only interested in investigations, where the museum collections
>already existed at the beginning of such a study.
>
>Examples: mercury pollution in bird feathers, metal concentrations in
>extant or fossil mollusk shells, vertebrates, insects, (marine or
>terrestrial) etc.

We have a whole research group devoted to this type of study which has done
a number of studies using museum material (although most studies have been
based on specifically collected material). For information, contact Tjelvar
Odsjö, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History,
Box 50007, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden (or by e-mail, mg-tjelvar@nrm.se).

Lars Werdelin
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Lars Werdelin, Senior Curator
Paleozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History
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