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Science 27 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5283, pp. 1792 - 1793
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5283.1792
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News & Comment

Nigel Williams

Cambridge, U.K.--As species after species slide into extinction around the globe, natural history museums, with their vast repositories of specimens, provide an increasingly important record of past biodiversity and a source of data for future studies. But the central message from the Second World Congress on the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections last month is that the museums themselves are a threatened species. Many collections, particularly in developing countries, may even become extinct without a concerted effort to preserve them.




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