Bibliography for Skins and Taxidermy

Reference skins and Taxidermy

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7.1 USEFUL RESOURCES:
Ethos Project, British Library.
Access to UK university theses / dissertations. http://ethos.bl.uk

ICOM-CC Natural History Working Group
http://www.icom-cc.org/33/working-groups/natural-history-collections/

Museum Pest Net: a valuable resource for pest management.
http://www.museumpests.net/

Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
Natural History Collections Listserver (NHCOLL)
http://spnhc.org/

The Feather Atlas
U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory.
Scans of North American birds flight feathers for identification.
http://www.lab.fws.gov/featheratlas/index.php

UCLA Conservation Genetics Resource Centre.
Genetic material repository; birds and mammals. Bird collection consists of feather and blood samples. Currently (2005) mainly Central and West Africa, North, Central and South America. http://www.ioe.ucla.edu