{"id":355,"date":"2020-09-21T13:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bms.mineralcollective.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:27:31","slug":"reference-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/?page_id=355","title":{"rendered":"Reference Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The idea of a National Micromount Reference Collection was conceived back in 1984. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The Reference Collection has changed hands: Trevor Devon of Sussex has taken over as Curator of the Collection.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection is curated to a high standard with all specimens permanently mounted in dust tight boxes, and labelled with an accession number linked to a catalogue \/ database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection comprises over 2400 specimens from across the United Kingdom, with a large number of species being represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clicking on one of these links, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/ldzkn3q4o8xz3hmpbs4f7uc5215kqtc4\">Excel Document<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/6mtzpxuc21i2st9rea4vvx16l745xzxb\">PDF<\/a> will take you to pages listing the specimens in the collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members wishing to inspect specimens for study purposes can email the curator. Contact details are in the Membership list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two links will give you the forms needed to send in new specimens: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/ikhfh0hwh7r39niv5s14p3jl1ry55azs\">Excel Document<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/c4wyw5ax5shs4dt0pc4r0941f0kqz0w9\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are three photographs which illustrate how the collection is curated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ref_Collection_open_drawers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\"\/><figcaption>The Reference Collection cabinets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ref_Collection_drawer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\"\/><figcaption>Reference Collection drawer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Ref_Collection_catalogue_cards.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\"\/><figcaption>Reference Collection catalogue cards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of a National Micromount Reference Collection was conceived back in 1984. The Reference Collection has changed hands: Trevor Devon of Sussex has taken over as Curator of the Collection. The collection is curated to a high standard with all specimens permanently mounted in dust tight boxes, and labelled with an accession number linked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bms.31pendleton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}