Description
The Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire holds an important collection of mounted birds specimens started by Jean François Emmanuel Baillon during the 18th century and completed by his son Louis Antoine François Baillon until he died in 1855. Baillon father and son were 2 naturalists from northern France and have been in touch and exchanged specimens with some of the most famous naturalists and explorers of their time (e.g. Buffon, Cuvier, Temminck, Prince of Wied, Vieillot, Bonelli, Bruch, Leach, Ruppell, Levaillant, Verreaux, Leschenault...). The Baillon Collection houses 2480 specimens representing 1318 species of birds, collected in all continents including Antarctica, with more than 60 pre-1800 specimens as well as 9 specimens of extinct species or subspecies. The Baillon Collection also holds 41 specimens of bats mainly collected in northern France.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,522 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Gouraud C. & M. Quemin. Inventory of the Baillon Collection (Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire, La Châtre, France).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum George Sand et de la Vallee Noire. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 73a7ba69-d4f9-4df8-aab5-67e9183c2e16. Museum George Sand et de la Vallee Noire publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF France.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
- Scientific referees/advisors of the Baillon Collection
- 71 Rue Venose 36400 La Châtre
- Metadata Provider
- Musée George Sand et de la Vallée Noire
- 71 Rue Venose 36400 La Châtre
Geographic Coverage
No Description available
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 73a7ba69-d4f9-4df8-aab5-67e9183c2e16 |
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| https://ipt.gbif.fr/resource?r=baillon_collection |