TY - JOUR
T1 - From science to heritage
T2 - The history of a wood collection
AU - Dargavel, John
AU - Evans, Philip D.
AU - Dadswell, Gordon
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - There is a process by which scientific collections become heritage. The case of a wood collection, or xylarium, at the Australian National University (ANU) is discussed from its start in the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau in 1926, its association with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research/Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1928, its transfer to ANU in 1965, its manifold uses at ANU, and its decline and heritage assessment in 2011. The collection, consisting of 8,400 wood samples, microscope slides, panels and artefacts, was used for teaching forestry students, research into wood anatomy, and for identifying timber. Its future is uncertain.
AB - There is a process by which scientific collections become heritage. The case of a wood collection, or xylarium, at the Australian National University (ANU) is discussed from its start in the Commonwealth Forestry Bureau in 1926, its association with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research/Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1928, its transfer to ANU in 1965, its manifold uses at ANU, and its decline and heritage assessment in 2011. The collection, consisting of 8,400 wood samples, microscope slides, panels and artefacts, was used for teaching forestry students, research into wood anatomy, and for identifying timber. Its future is uncertain.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899892050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1071/HR14004
DO - 10.1071/HR14004
M3 - Review article
SN - 0727-3061
VL - 25
SP - 43
EP - 54
JO - Historical Records of Australian Science
JF - Historical Records of Australian Science
IS - 1
ER -