Gesner’s Museum of Natural History, An Early Canadian Geological Collection
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Abstract
In 1842, on the fifth of April, Abraham Gesner opened the doors of his museum in Saint John, New Brunswick to the public. The museum displayed part of his collection of almost 4,000 specimens. His published catalogue included more than 1,200 rocks, minerals and fossils along with a smaller number of invertebrate and vertebrate animals and artefacts. It survives today as one of Canada’s oldest geological collections. This national treasure documents the earliest days of the study of the geological sciences in Canada including specimens from Gesner’s surveys of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Although Gesner’s collection moved through three institutions, it has remained partly intact and is accompanied by a catalogue of the museum’s contents. SOMMAIRE Le 5 avril 1842, Abraham Gesner ouvrait au public son musee a Saint-Jean, Nouveau-Brunswick. Le musee exposait alors une partie de sa collection de pres de 4 000 specimens. Le catalogue qu'il a publie alors comprenait plus de 1 200 roches, mineraux et fossiles ainsi qu'un nombre moindre de specimens de vertebres, d'invertebres et d'artefacts. Il a survecu jusqu'a nos jours et constitue l'une des plus anciennes collections geologiques au Canada. Ce tresor canadien qui temoigne des premieres etudes scientifiques de la geologie au Canada comprend des specimens tires de leves effectues par Gesner au Nouveau-Brunswick et en Nouvelle-Ecosse. Bien que la collection de Gesner ait ete deplacee dans trois institutions, elle demeure encore partiellement intacte et comporte un catalogue de ses specimens.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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