[Taxacom] oldest specimens in a US collection?

[Michael Heads]

Hi Ken,

There are also herbarium specimens from the 1500s, e.g. Cesalpino's
herbarium of 768 species, held in Florence. This is when modern systematics
began (not with Linnaeus!).


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Ken Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Donat,
>       At first I was a little bit surprised to read that there are extant
> herpetological specimens from the Museum of Ulisse Aldrovandi (collected in
> the mid-to-late 1500s)?  See weblink below.  But I guess turtle carapaces
> and crocodylian bodies are pretty durable.
>  -----------------Ken
>
> http://www.researchgate.net/publication/257917015_The_oldest_herpetological_collection_in_the_world_the_surviving_amphibian_and_reptile_specimens_of_the_Museum_of_Ulisse_Aldrovandi
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > From: agosti at amnh.org
> > To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:04:47 +0000
> > Subject: [Taxacom] oldest specimens in a US collection?
> >
> > Dear Katja
> >
> > Here in comparison some of the oldest specimens in a dedicated Nat hist
> coll in Europe at the NHM in London from 1696 (Leonard-Plukenet-Book)
> source: DU 1993:4:66 http://t.co/BpNP5f3iYa
> >
> > Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/myrmoteras/status/460886385847980032
> >
> > Donat
> >
> >
> >
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