Your Details (to be used by the compilers for information checking purposes)
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Full contact details:
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Wood Collection Questionnaire
WOOD COLLECTION BASIC DETAILS
1. Complete name and address of the institution in which the wood collection is housed.:
Institute Name
Institute Address
2. If your wood collection has a special name, please state it
3. Year of foundation of the collection:
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CURATOR AND ASSOCIATED STAFF
4. Name of curator or individual directly in charge of the collection, his/her official institutional title (e.g., Prof., Curator, Keeper); degree title (e.g., Dr., Ing.), and area of research. Please give email address(es) if available:
Curator Name:
Area of research:
Email Address:
5. Other staff personnel associated with the collection, their titles, and areas of research if relevant. Please give email address(es) if available:
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WOOD COLLECTION
6. Number of specimens in the wood collection:
7. Number of genera in the wood collection:
8. Regions, countries, or taxa in which your wood collection specialises:
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RELATED-HERBARIA
9. Is a herbarium containing vouchers for the wood specimens associated with the wood collection?
yes
no
9. A) If so, how many specimens are in the whole herbarium?
9. B) If there is no herbarium directly associated with the wood collection, do you maintain records showing where herbarium vouchers for wood specimens are deposited?
10. About what proportion of the wood collection is associated with herbarium vouchers?
11. List any major special collections (e.g., Desch's Malayan Woods, Gamble's Indian Woods, Jesup Collection of Woods of North America, Krukoff's Brazilian Woods, Koorders' Javanese Woods):
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WOOD RESEARCH, SLIDE COLLECTION, EXCHANGES
12. Are any periodicals dealing wholly or in part with woods published by your institution? If so, please name them
yes
no
13. Will you make available small samples of wood suitable for research to qualified scientists?
yes
no
14. Do you maintain a microscope slide collection of woods?
yes
no
14 A. How many slides are in the collection?
14 B. Are these slides available on loan to qualified investigators?
yes
no
14 C. Do you have any slides for exchange?
yes
no
15. Are duplicate wood specimens available for exchange or distribution?
yes
no
15 A. From what areas or taxa are wood specimens desired?
15 B. From what areas or taxa can wood specimens be provided?
16. Is there a catalogue for the wood collection? If so, what form does it take (e.g. hard copy, computer database, internet site)?
yes
no
Web home page address :
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REMARKS
17. Please record any other information of importance concerning your wood collection:
18. Do you know of any institutional wood collections which are not included on the accompanying list (draft directory)? If so, please give the names and addresses of these: