Sharing information about wildlife
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Tullie House
Tullie House Museum established what may be the first ever local biological records centre in 1902 at the instigation of the curator at the time - Linnaeus Eden Hope. Today the Museum maintains a local biological records database covering the county of Cumbria, which holds information on the distribution and abundance of wildlife in the county.
Over 200,000 records are currently held on the RECORDER database. The information mainly concerns species records. Although records deriving from the museum collections give an historic perspective, the bulk of the data has been collected from recent surveys and contemporary naturalists. The Museum welcomes additional records and information concerning wildlife in Cumbria.
Information is made available through publications, exhibitions and other media as appropriate. It is also made available to national recording schemes and to a network of professional users in Cumbria for conservation and planning purposes.
Tullie House Museum has launched a major new interactive web site providing information on the wildlife of Cumbria.
The site is called The Virtual Fauna of Lakeland and can be found at
www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk
Contact:
Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA3 8TP
Tel: 01228 618718
E-Mail: enquiries@tulliehouse.co.uk
