Treasures in the collection of Shanghai Natural History Museum

Author: Xu Yongqing
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: The rich collection of the Shanghai Natural Museum serves as the foundation for scientific research, primarily focusing on fundamental disciplines such as taxonomy, morphology, biogeography, and natural environmental protection. It participates in the writing of the "Flora and Fauna of China," compiles popular science series, professional reference books, and illustrated books. The museum has achieved influential results in fields such as zoology, botany, paleontology, geology, and anthropology, and has nurtured a group of outstanding professionals. The Shanghai Natural Museum, with its vast collection of exquisite specimens, popularizes natural science knowledge and dialectical materialist education to the public through classic knowledge dissemination systems and the application of various high-tech methods. All the collections of the natural museum are natural specimens, and the country has clear grading standards for flora and fauna. In the process of selecting the treasures from the museum's collection this time, we adopted the national grading standards for flora and fauna, which are divided into seven categories: nationally protected first-class wildlife, rare plants, type specimens, and rare specimens. Among them, all rare specimens are either gifts or exchanges from foreign countries, as well as precious specimens of paleontology, geology, and anthropology that do not have national grading standards.