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Opinion
Nature 394, 105 (9 July 1998) | doi:10.1038/27969
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Abstract
Natural history museums face an unprecedented opportunity as central players in biodiversity research. They and their financial supporters need to match fine words with appropriate actions.
President Thomas Jefferson had a better appreciation of the importance of biodiversity research than many contemporary politicians. When the United States acquired Louisiana Territory from France in the early nineteenth century, he sent scientists to record its climate, biota, minerals and peoples, as well as "the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flowers or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, reptiles or insects".
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