Abstract

Although it holds one of the largest university-based natural history collections in the United States, little has been known historically about the early development of the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia in Athens. Formally established in 1978, it was recognized as the state museum of natural history in 1999, but the findings presented here reveal that the origins of the museum’s collections date to much earlier: the early 1800s. Research conducted at the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library tells the previously unknown story of the museum’s founding and growth during the nineteenth century. This paper details key aspects of the development of the collection, its changing location on campus, and the museum’s relationship with the university’s library and botanical gardens; it also identifies researchers in charge of the collections in the early and pivotal years of the institution.

中文翻译：

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揭开自然历史博物馆，1785至1900年的格鲁吉亚馆的早期历史

摘要

尽管它拥有美国最大的大学自然历史收藏之一，但历史上对雅典乔治亚大学乔治亚自然历史博物馆的早期发展知之甚少。正式成立于1978年，它被认定为自然历史在1999年的国家博物馆，但在这里提出的调查结果表明，该博物馆的藏品的起源可以更早地：19世纪初。进行研究的理查德·罗素特藏库讲述了十九世纪博物馆的创立和成长的前所未知的故事。本文详细介绍了收集，在校园的改变位置，博物馆与大学的图书馆和植物园关系发展的重要方面;