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Nature 400, 207 (15 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22200

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Valuable biodiversity data under threat

Angelo Capparella1

  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, USA

Your report1 on the move by the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture to become independent of the University of Washington, Seattle, because of a lack of financial support from the university, illustrates one of the threats facing university biodiversity collections.The Burke museum has the advantage of size to make plausible its becoming an independent institution.