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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0072_01D10D26.D4619BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all I checked out the grounds of the McCulloch House Museum and Genealogy = Centre in Pictou today and manage to photograph a Philadelphia Vireo in = the ravine north of the pond. A female Cardinal was present there as = well.=20 Since I am mentioning the McCulloch House Museum, just a reminder that = Dr. Eric Mills will be guest speaker at this venue at 100 Haliburton = Rd., Pictou on Sunday Oct. 25 and will talk about the bird collections = of the Thomas McCullochs'. The talk is co-sponsored by the museum and = the Pictou Co. Naturalists Club and will be at 2 pm. The venue honours = McCulloch who sold some of his specimens to the famous James Audubon who = came to visit McCulloch in Pictou. Everyone welcome.=20 =20 "Attractive to strangers and instructive to students." The Thomas = McCullochs 19th Century Bird Collection in Dalhousie College. Eric L. Mills =20 Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 =20 Thomas McCulloch (1776-1843), Presbyterian minister and educator, = founder of Pictou Academy, first President of Dalhousie College, = 1838-1843, established a museum in Pictou, NS, about 1817, including a = bird collection. To McCulloch, the order of the natural world inculcated = in students principles of a liberal education and a model of society. = His first collections were sold, but when McCulloch came to Dalhousie in = 1838 he started a new collection and museum. In this he was aided by his = son Thomas (1811-1865), who had been trained as a taxidermist. The = younger McCulloch expanded the new collection until his death, after = which it passed to Dalhousie College. The current McCulloch Collection, = mainly the work of Thomas McCulloch, Jr., seems to exemplify purposes = and practices of 19th century natural history. But research shows that = the collection has a hybrid origin, and must be viewed with great = caution as an historical artifact. This is a case study in the = difficulty of interpreting 19th century natural history collections = without careful examination of their history. [I outline the checkered = history of the McCulloch Collection as we see it today ------=_NextPart_000_0072_01D10D26.D4619BA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.23588"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton = NS<BR>B0K=20 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>I checked out the grounds of the=20 McCulloch House Museum and Genealogy Centre in Pictou = today and=20 manage to photograph a <STRONG>Philadelphia Vireo</STRONG> in the ravine = north=20 of the pond. A female Cardinal was present there as well. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Since I am mentioning the McCulloch = House Museum,=20 just a reminder that <STRONG>Dr. Eric Mills</STRONG> will be guest = speaker=20 at this venue at <STRONG>100 Haliburton Rd</STRONG>., <STRONG>Pictou on = Sunday=20 Oct. 25</STRONG> and will talk about the bird collections of the Thomas=20 McCullochs'. The talk is co-sponsored by the museum and the Pictou Co.=20 Naturalists Club and will be at <STRONG>2 pm</STRONG>. The venue = honours=20 McCulloch who sold some of his specimens to the famous James Audubon who = came to=20 visit McCulloch in Pictou. Everyone welcome. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter><B style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: = normal"><FONT=20 size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman">"Attractive to strangers and = instructive to=20 students." The Thomas McCullochs 19<SUP>th</SUP> Century Bird Collection = in=20 Dalhousie College.</FONT></B></P><FONT size=3D3><FONT face=3D"Times New = Roman"> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D3 face=3D"Times New = Roman">Eric L.=20 Mills</FONT></P> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter> <?xml:namespace prefix =3D o ns = =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"=20 /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D3 face=3D"Times New = Roman">Department of=20 Oceanography, Dalhousie University</FONT></P> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D3 face=3D"Times New = Roman">Halifax, NS B3H=20 4R2</FONT></P> <P style=3D"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: = none"=20 class=3DMsoNormal align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D3><FONT=20 face=3D"Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P> <P style=3D"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none" = class=3DMsoNormal><FONT=20 size=3D3><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman"><B = style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Thomas McCulloch (1776-1843), = Presbyterian=20 minister and educator, founder of Pictou Academy, first President of = Dalhousie=20 College, 1838-1843, established a museum in Pictou, NS</I>,</B> <B=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">about 1817, including a bird=20 collection</I></B>. To McCulloch, the order of the natural world = inculcated in=20 students principles of a liberal education and a model of society. <B=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: = normal">His=20 first collections were</I> <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: = normal">sold, but when=20 McCulloch came to Dalhousie in 1838 he started a new collection and = museum. In=20 this he was aided by his son Thomas (1811-1865), who had been trained as = a=20 taxidermist. </I>The <I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">younger = McCulloch=20 expanded the new collection until his death</I></B><I=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">, <B=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">after which it passed = to</B></I><B=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <I=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Dalhousie College</I></B>. The = current=20 McCulloch Collection, mainly the work of Thomas McCulloch, Jr., seems to = exemplify purposes and practices of 19<SUP>th</SUP> century natural = history. But=20 research shows that the collection has a hybrid origin, and must be = viewed with=20 great caution as an historical artifact. This is a case study in the = difficulty=20 of interpreting 19<SUP>th</SUP> century natural history collections = without=20 careful examination of their history.<SPAN=20 style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[<B=20 style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style=3D"mso-bidi-font-style: = normal">I=20 outline the checkered history of the McCulloch Collection as we see it=20 today</I></B></FONT></FONT></P></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0072_01D10D26.D4619BA0--
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