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	Rusty Russell, collections manager for the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, prepares to photograph one of the tens of thousands of type specimens in the museum’s collection. Russell and colleagues have created high-resolution digital images of approximately 88,000 type specimens and posted them online at the Web address: persoon.si.edu/types. (Photo by James Di Loreto)


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