Description
The Schmidt Museum of Natural History contains a comprehensive collection of approximately 600 taxidermy mounts of birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish from Kansas. A research collection of more than 2,500 bird and mammal skins from various parts of the U.S. is maintained for advanced study and research. The museum mounts are the work of Richard Schmidt whose career began as a school boy in 1925 and culminated with his retirement as taxidermist at Emporia State University (then Emporia Kansas State College). The specimens in the museum are grouped taxonomically and allow visitors to see clearly the color and structural details useful in identifying species. Other interesting features include displays of rare specimens collected in Kansas, invertebrates, an egg collection, unusual color patterns of certain species, techniques for preparing museum mounts, and a tallgrass prairie diorama.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,013 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Schmidt Museum of Natural History, Emporia State University (KSTC)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Emporia State University. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8a5459ee-3d3a-4e0a-9fb0-0cbbb9e5a6f9. Emporia State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Museum Director
- Breukelman Science Hall Room 43
- +01 620-341-5339
Geographic Coverage
Western hemisphere
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-59.99, -172.42], North East [73.88, -28.67] |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Schmidt Museum of Natural History (KSTC) |
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| Collection Identifier | Schmidt Museum of Natural History (KSTC) |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Schmidt Museum of Natural History (KSTC) |
Additional Metadata
http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html KTSC is currently in the process of digitizing the collection in a Specify database and publishing data as it becomes available. Although KSTC routinely updates their data, outdated taxonomic names, mistaken specimen identifications, erroneous localities, and other problems inevitably occur. Investigators should verify data by direct examination of specimens, and notify KSTC if discrepancies are found.
| Alternative Identifiers | 8a5459ee-3d3a-4e0a-9fb0-0cbbb9e5a6f9 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=kstc_schmidt_mammals |