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From: john@oravax.UUCP (John Gregoire)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Machine-readable specimen label data request
Summary: Try Smithsonian
Keywords: museums,biological collections,databases
Message-ID: <426@oravax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 14:38:40 GMT
References: <312@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Odyssey Research Ass., Ithaca NY
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Sorry the mailer wouldn't allow me to respond directly. You should try
the collection at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in
Washington,D.C. I believe Roxy Laybourne has done some database work
on feather specimens and the folks running the skin collection should
be able to direct you to their data base methods (I don't believe
their labels are machine readable as the ones I've seen follow time
honored practice...and India Ink!)

oravax!john@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu