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Nature 423, 575 (5 June 2003) |
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Natural history collections in crisis as funding is slashed
Rex Dalton
Natural history museums and valuable university collections of plant and animal specimens are being hit hard by the economic climate across the United States, researchers say, threatening a wide variety of research projects.Curators are being laid off, departments closed, systematic collections dispersed and library subscriptions sliced as administrators seek to make up budgetary shortfalls — often caused by cuts in support from state governments to universities and their museums.
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