The Australian Society For Fish Biology was founded in 1971 to promote fish studies and provide a forum for the exchange of information between fish biologists. The Society has over 600 members in 2003, drawn from across Australia and overseas, representing the government, research, educational and private sectors. [Information of the supplier]
"Where do we come from?", "Who are we?", "Where are we going to?" The exhibition of the Neanderthal Museum is based on those central topics. One can find them in any part of the house. The permanent exhibition traces humankind's long journey from the origins in the African savannahs to the urban centres of our times. Of course, emphasis is given to the Neanderthals and the true-to-life figures based upon skeletal remains which were reconstructed using the latest forensic methods. Multimedia arrangements and audio-experiences, but also classical media such as exhibits and texts give vivid insights into the results of current archaeological and palaeoanthropological research. Computer terminals offer the opportunity for further individual in-depth research. ... [Information of the supplier]
With more than 4,000 molluscan species it is the largest exhibition of shells in Germany. The collection represents a clear survey of this second largest phylum of animals in its almost endless variety. Shells of every shape and colour, from the size of a grain of sand to one meter in diameter can be seen. Many of the shells in the collection are genuine rarities, some are unique in Europe. ... [Information of the supplier]
With support from the National Science Foundation, seventeen North American institutions and their collaborators developed the Mammal Networked Information System. The original objectives of MaNIS were to 1) facilitate open access to combined specimen data from a web browser, 2) enhance the value of specimen collections, 3) conserve curatorial resources, and 4) use a design paradigm that can be easily adopted by other disciplines with similar needs. As an NSF-funded initiative, MaNIS has achieved these objectives while avoiding the need for long-term, external maintenance of the network and centralized data management. The MaNIS network provides access to mammal specimen records from a variety of museum collection databases via several equivalent portals (see the MaNIS Network Architecture diagram, below). A portal presents web pages from which a user can send requests for data and visualize the results. Requests for data pass through provider software installed on computers at the participating institutions. Individual institutions determine which data are made accessible to the public and format their data to agree with the community-determined standard (in this case the Darwin Core). Depending on their individual requirements, institutions may serve data to the public directly from their working collection databases, or they may serve data via a separate public database to which data are periodically migrated. These public databases may be within the same institutions (local snapshot), or they may be hosted at a collaborating institution (hosted snapshot). By participating in MaNIS, institutions also provide data via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology hat inherited to build up the node "Evertebrata II" within GBIF Germany. Tasks and organisation struktur are shown under the marked hyperlinks. Beside the colleagues of the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, collaborators from the museums of Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cismar are participating. Another important partner is the SysTax-project, which provides the portal to show the data on the internet. ... [Information of the supplier]
GBIF Evertebrata III stellt ein Teilprojekt (oder sog. "Knoten") der Initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (= GBIF) Deutschland dar und erfasst als Teilknoten vor allem die Gruppe der marinen Evertebraten. GBIF hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, alle Informationen zur biologischen Vielfalt, die in Deutschland verfügbar sind, unter einem Dach zu bündeln und über ihre Einstiegsseiten zu erschließen. Die Webseite verweist vor allem auf die Teilprojekte verschiedener Forschungsinstitute wie z.B. das Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg und zahlreiche Typensammlungen anderer Einrichtungen. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
GBIF Vertebrata stellt ein Teilprojekt (oder sog. "Knoten") der Initiative Global Biodiversity Information Facility (= GBIF) Deutschland dar. Die GBIF hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, alle Informationen zur biologischen Vielfalt, die in Deutschland verfügbar sind, unter einem Dach zu bündeln und über ihre Einstiegsseiten zu erschließen. Oberstes Ziel dieses Projektteiles ist die Erfassung der Primärtypen von Wirbeltieren in deutschen Forschungsmuseen. Durch die Digitalisierung der Sammlungsdaten von Primärtypen wird eine international verfügbare, die nationalen Bestände erschließende solide Basis zur Erleichterung der internationalen taxonomischen Forschung und der allgemeinen Biodiversitätsforschung geschaffen. Der Teilknoten Vertebrata umfaßt alle Wirbeltiergruppen. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
The Essig Museum of Entomology is a part of a consortium of museums on the UC Berkeley campus, the Berkeley Natural History Museums. Since 1880 some famous entomologists (e.g. E.O. Essig, P.D. Hurd, J.A. Powell) built up Essig Museum and the collections of insects for teaching and research. In addition to California material, the museum houses a large collection of specimens from the northern Neotropics. Extensive fieldwork in Mexico by museum faculty and staff has enabled the assembly of a large, extremely important collection of specimens from that country. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Zoologische Staatssammlung München, ZSM) collection of butterflies and moths actually includes about 6,000,000-7,000,000 specimens, representing 80,000-100,000 species, stored in about 50,000 drawers. Many other private collections have already been donated to the ZSM, but are currently still under the curation of the private owners. Further 2,000,000-3,000,000 specimens (museum Thomas Witt) are associated - as a public foundation – to the state collections, and are professionally curated by a scientist (Dr. W. Speidel). Hence, this association of Lepidoptera collections in Munich is by far the largest collection of butterflies and moths in Germany, and also on international scale it is one of the most outstanding and important collections. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Witt Museum, also known in the literature under the abbreviation MWM, has been established in 1980 by Thomas J. WITT to study moths (Heterocera), "Bombyces and Sphinges" as defined in the work of SEITZ. The representative specialized collection of Lepidoptera families, comprising about 2,5 – 3 million specimens from all over the world, form the basis of this privately donated institute. The growing crew of specialists of many nations, including corresponding scientists and colleagues, is now busyly maintaining, evaluating and studying the research material. Results of this activity are constantly published in internationally known journals, book series and separate articles. The continuously supplemented research library contains now more than thousand textbooks along with about 20.000 research related reprints, letters, maps and manuscripts from about 450 journals, which can be readily accessed. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
