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The scientific significance of museum collections gained increasing attention recently, as it is realised that natural history objects stored in the respective museums worldwide for over two hundred years are of great relevance to modern science in several respects. We here reconstruct the history of and contextualize such a collection that dates back to the time of German colonialism and was compilated...
While the scientific significance of museum collections has gained increasing attention in recent years, their historical contextualisation has often been neglected. Even historical collections of major significance have remained largely unexplored. Even for the material collected by eminent scientific voyageurs such as e.g. Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace or Alexander von Humboldt a complete...
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