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2 unusual facts about Bird collections


Bird collections

Dried tissue is removed from skeletons by using dermestid beetle larvae (genus Dermestes).

Early scientific bird collections included those belonging to Pallas and Naumann in Germany, Latham and Tunstall in England and Adanson in France.


Jean-Baptiste Bécœur

The huge collection of Bécoeur was purchased by the Duke of Zweibrücken for the cabinet of curiosities of the Château de Karlsberg, destroyed after the Siege of Mainz in 1793.


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