It also has a fee structure and billing system; research groups pay to access samples through Crimson and for specimen shipping, collection, and storage.
Dr. Frederick H. Rindge, the museum's curator of Lepidoptera, flew to East Africa to pack & ship the collection, which together with the museum's West African collection (made by Dr. James Chapin around 1912) forms one of the best African butterfly collections in the world.
"We're unusual, being an art museum with a ship model collection," said Gerry Ward, the museum's senior curator of American decorative arts and sculpture.
Robotic submarines removed the cap that had been placed on top of the leak in early June to collect the oil and send it to surface ships for collection or burning.
The display will include the Ford Parade of Ships, a collection of tall-masted vessels.
A motivated seller shipped his collection — to a buyer in France he had never met — for just $85,000, including freight.
He, Dr. Libby and others created clones of 180 seedlings taken from the forest in the early '80s and shipped the collection around the world to be planted.
In 1951, Dubuffet shipped the collection, of some twelve hundred works, to The Creeks, the immense East Hampton villa of his friend Alfonso Ossorio, a wealthy Filipino-American artist and socialite.
In 1958, shortly before his presidency was on the brink of collapse, he shipped his collection abroad to Daytona Beach, Florida, where the Batistas had lived during exile in the 1940s.
GW was responsible for the sample repository, shipping, and collection of data.
