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Nature 433, 193 (20 January 2005) | doi:10.1038/433193b; Published online 19 January 2005

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Insect collection ready to spread its wings

Quentin D. Wheeler1

  1. Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK

Your News story "Curators bugged by museum's vision for insect collection" (Nature 432, 659; 2004) gave the impression that Darwin Centre II (DCII) will be incompatible with a 'cyber-infrastructure' future for taxonomy.Although we are certain that taxonomy and collections-based research in general will look very different ten years from now, no consensus exists as to the details of this future.

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