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Global Registry of Scientific Collections
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A lot of the curation on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) is country-dependant. We have “editors” in charge of reviewing suggestion updates for a given country.

So in order to facilitate the GRSciColl curation, @Kumiko and I have tried to assign countries to every GRSciColl institution entry. We managed for most entries but there are a few remaining ones where we need help.
Some might be just international, some might be misspellings, we aren’t sure. If you have heard of those, please let us know!

See the list:

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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This is a fun detective hunt! I was able to find a few bits of evidence:

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Thank you @sformel, this is most helpful! I have updated some of the entries based on the documents you shared.
The one I am not sure how to handle is the Expedition. There are other expeditions on GRSciColl: GBIF Registry but in the other cases, there is the possibility to tie the output of these expeditions to a specific location or country. Maybe we could consider leaving that one entry country-less.

In any case, many thanks again for the investigation work!

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I think it’s extremely odd that an expedition is listed as if it’s a single collection somewhere, which would very much make it an exception.

Voyager, which shared third prize in the 2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, displays what’s more commonly the rule.

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First, @kcopas thanks for sharing Voyager! I had never seen it before and it’s very cool.

@mgrosjean Not sure if you had access to the article you linked, I can email it to you if you don’t. It sounds like the collection resides in two possible places:

The fully coordinated joint research work has been performed by the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently the Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, abbreviated as PIN) and the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Mongolian People’s Republic (Paleontological Center of the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia, now the Institute of Paleontology and Geology of the ASM.

So perhaps it is worth dissolving the JRMPE and pointing records to PIN and either UBA or PSS or MGI?

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seems to be pretty close to the “Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle” in Paris, however with a missing accent and article (d’) and the mixed order of “ir” in “Histoire”. It looks a bit like a non-french speaker tried to write the name of the institution.

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Thanks David, I think you might be correct, I merged the entry with the entry for the museum in Paris

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Francisco de la Villa is a private collection based in Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela:
sea-entomologia. org/PDF/M3M_PRIBES_2000/M3M1-20-261.pdf
bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar. org/media/17059/libro_bio_t2_055.pdf
It’s usually listed with the acronym “FDLV”, in accordance with typical practice for private collections, but Joly, 2017 uses “CFDV”.

The man may have died earlier this month (instagram. com/balanceinformativo_/p/DHCoRNisNYB/), but I cannot confirm as the corresponding social media accounts are either shut down or private.

(I had to muck around with my evidence because I’m only allowed one URL)

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This is (or at least it was as of 1997) a small private collection in Rapid Citry, South Dakota the N stands for “Nathaniel”, who may have been more active in ornithology, seeing as he apparently wrote an obituary in 1971. Whether this collection still exists is unclear at best.

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[quote=“mgrosjean, post:1, topic:4123”]International Cooperative Project for Description and Deposition of Type Cultures
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This one’s name is incomplete. It should be the International Cooperative Project for Description and Deposition of Type Cultures of Streptomyces. It was started in the 60s and later shortened to “International Streptomyces Project” (hence ISP). see a brief discussion here: www. ifo.or.jp/rc_pdf/6. pdf

This page lists it as terminated. I can’t find much details because the project gave its name to some widely used standard growth media, making it almost impossible to find information online about the research effort itself.

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Thank you @Circeus this is very helpful and much appreciated! (I updated the records accordingly)

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I have located what I believe to be De la Villa’s Facebook (judging connections to various other entomologists), and cross-referencing posts from friends does seem to confirm he died.

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