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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
- 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.
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