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Nature 400, 707 (19 August 1999) | doi:10.1038/23337

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Bureaucrats pose threat to museums

Michael A. Mares1

  1. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73072, USA

Your article on the funding difficulties of Seattle's Burke museum, and its bid for independence, illustrates a common problem faced by university natural history museums (Nature 399, 189; 1999). The article also mentioned the 100-year-old Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History — the largest repository of Oklahoma's heritage.