Laura Cotton
@lauraminifera.bsky.social
Curator of all things fossil (and a few not-fossils) at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Fan of larger foraminifera.
Reposted by Laura Cotton
why we are doing this:
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute
“Exceptional” fossil collections housed by the Paleontological Research Institute risk being orphaned
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
why we are doing this:
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...
PRI is one of America's largest museum collections, and they need to raise the last 1/3 of funds (~$1mil) needed to pay off their mortgage by Dec (a donor backed out of a pledge) or it will be the largest orphaned collection in US history.
www.science.org/content/arti...