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The Importance of Cataloguing
The museum were concerned about whether or not these remains had been preserved. When they finally found these remains in the museum they realized they had been preserved, they just hadn't been catalogued. To catalog something is to mark it down in an organized list of things in categories. So you categorize saying I have this preserved animal, these animal remains, they must go in the natural history category and you give lots of details. And so as a young girl, I'm talking 13 years old, I liked to catalog all of my soft toys, all of my stuffed animals. They all had a name. We call them teddy bears or teddy's soft toy animals, so we call them
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