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Colligo Histoire(s) de Collections Colligo 3 (3) Hors-série n°2 2020 PALÉONTOLOGIE How to build a palaeontological collection: expeditions, excavations, exchanges. Paleontological collections in the making – an introduction to the special issue Irina PODGORNY, Éric BUFFETAUT & Maria Margaret LOPES P. 3-5 La guerre, la paix et la querelle. Les sociétés A Frenchman in Patagonia: the palaeontological paléontologiques d'Auvergne sous la Seconde expeditions of André Tournouër (1898-1903) Restauration Irina PODGORNY Éric BUFFETAUT P. 7-31 P. 67-80 Two South American palaeontological collections Paul Carié, Mauritian naturalist and forgotten in the Natural History Museum of Denmark collector of dodo bones Kasper Lykke HANSEN Delphine ANGST & Éric BUFFETAUT P. 33-44 P. 81-88 Cataloguing the Fauna of Deep Time: Researchers following the Glossopteris trail: social Paleontological Collections in Brazil in the context of the debate surrounding the continental Beginning of the 20th Century drift theory in Argentina in the early 20th century Maria Margaret LOPES Mariana F. WALIGORA P. 45-56 P. 89-103 The South American Mammal collection at the Natural history collecting by the Navy in French Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini (Bologna, Indochina Italy) Virginia VANNI et al. Marie-Béatrice FOREL P. 57-66 P. 105-126 1 SOMMAIRE Paleontological collections in the making – an introduction to the special issue Collections paléontologiques en développement – introduction au numéro spécial Irina PODGORNY, Éric BUFFETAUT & Maria Margaret LOPES P. 3-5 La guerre, la paix et la querelle. Les sociétés paléontologiques d'Auvergne sous la Seconde Restauration War, Peace, and Quarrels: The paleontological Societies in Auvergne during the Second Bourbon Restoration Irina PODGORNY P. 7-31 Two South American palaeontological collections in the Natural History Museum of Denmark Deux collections paléontologiques d'Amérique du Sud au Musée d'histoire naturelle du Danemark Kasper Lykke HANSEN P. 33-44 Cataloguing the Fauna of Deep Time: Paleontological Collections in Brazil in the Beginning of the 20th Century Cataloguer la faune du temps profond : les collections paléontologiques au Brésil, au début du 20e siècle Maria Margaret LOPES P. 45-56 The South American Mammal collection at the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini (Bologna, Italy) La collection des mammifères d’Amérique du Sud au Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini (Bologne, Italie) Virginia VANNI, Federico FANTI & Maria Giovanna BELCASTRO P. 57-66 A Frenchman in Patagonia: the palaeontological expeditions of André Tournouër (1898-1903) Un Français en Patagonie : les expéditions paléontologiques d'André Tournouër (1898-1903) Éric BUFFETAUT P. 67-80 Paul Carié, Mauritian naturalist and forgotten collector of dodo bones Paul Carié, naturaliste mauricien et collecteur oublié d'os de dodo Delphine ANGST & Éric BUFFETAUT P. 81-88 Researchers following the Glossopteris trail: social context of the debate surrounding the continental drift theory in Argentina in the early 20th century Chercheurs suivant la piste des Glossopteris: le contexte social du débat autour de la théorie de la dérive des continents en Argentine au début du XXe siècle Mariana F. WALIGORA P. 89-103 Natural history collecting by the Navy in French Indochina Les collectes d'histoire naturelle par la marine en Indochine française Marie-Béatrice FOREL P. 105-126 PLUS D’INFORMATIONS Le comité de rédaction veille à la qualité des manuscrits en effectuant une première relecture et en mettant en œuvre le processus de relecture par des membres du comité scientifique ou par des membres extérieurs. La ligne éditoriale et les instructions aux auteurs sont disponibles sur le site internet de la revue : www.revue-colligo.fr Editorial line and instructions for authors are available on Colligo’s website : www.revue-colligo.fr 2 Colligo 3 (3) - Hors-série n°2 PALÉONTOLOGIE Paleontological collections in the making – an introduction to the special issue Collections paléontologiques en développement – introduction au numéro spécial (1) (2) (3) IRINA PODGORNY , ÉRIC BUFFETAUT & MARIA MARGARET LOPES (1)CONICET, Archivo Histórico del Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - [email protected] (2)CNRS, UMR 8538, Laboratoire de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Maha Sarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand - [email protected] (3)Visiting professor, PPG Interunidades em Museologia, Museu da Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil - [email protected] Citation : Podgorny I., Buffetaut E. & Lopes M.M., 2020. Paleontological collections in the making – an introduction to the special issue Colligo, 3(3). https://perma.cc/L772-PP5T This special issue of Colligo grew out of a confe- parts of Western centers of calculation in the rence session entitled “How to build a paleonto- sense of Bruno Latour. However, the landscape logical collection: expeditions, excavations, ex- of nineteenth-century collections is certainly changes”, held at the 5th International Paleonto- much wider, more nuanced and complex than logical Congress in Paris, France, in July 2018. the current historiography, centered on the In conceptualizing this issue, which includes metropolitan collections assembled by nor- two additional papers specially written for it, thern Europe’s colonial powers, has suggested. we benefited from the comments of fellow par- As Pietro Corsi (2020: 1) recently wrote, ticipants and audience members as well as of “Almost inevitably, successive generations of the advice of several colleagues. historians, together with national and international professional associations and journals, The aim of this session was to explore how fos- have established a variety of (often contradicto- sil collections have been built, from the early ry) criteria of relevance, lists of issues and ac- days of palaeontology to the present. Ex- tors worth spending time on. With notable exchanges and sales of casts and duplicates, con- ceptions, the study of actual practices of fiscations, especially in wartime, transporta- knowledge of the past has rarely attracted sus- tion of fossils from the field to the museum / tained attention.” This issue addresses some of laboratory, networks of fossil exchange as well those neglected actors, events, contingencies, as organization of fieldwork, “bone wars”, mar- and spaces that shaped the practices of fossil keting strategies connecting the collection and collecting. exhibition of dinosaurs with the request of more money for the development of palaeonto- Museums and collections generated and chan- logy were some of the topics discussed in Paris neled a flow of data, natural specimens and (Tamborini, 2016; also Brinkman, 2010; Ro- artifacts that through their relationship with berts, 2009). Our symposium was global in geo- people, travelled to diverse places, and in a graphical scope, with special emphasis on in- variety of directions. This has often been over- ternational expeditions and exchanges. It co- looked, so that many important movements vered all types of fossil collections and collec- remain almost invisible. Against this back- tors, from plants to mega-mammals and dino- ground, the workshop suggested a change of saurs, from provincial tax collectors and ba- perspective. Thus, for example, Podgorny’s kers to very well established professors in Pa- paper –centered on the brief existence of the ris and Buenos Aires. Geological Society of Auvergne and the fossils from the Perrier Mountain in central France- When it comes to exploring the making of the suggests a change of perspective, proposing to nineteenth-century global world, museum col- explore those many collections that came to lections have been studied as being crucial less central cities and institutions, which up to 3 Podgorny et al. - Paleontological collections in the making– an introduction to the special issue PALÉONTOLOGIE now have largely remained out of historians’ vate means etc.) needs further consideration. purview. The papers by Margaret Lopes, Irina Podgorny, and Mariana Waligora included in the issue, We wanted to explore the flow of data, namely show how fossil collecting was also a collateral bones, casts, fossil prints, etc., as well as the result of mining and/or surveying for oil and movements of humans and things, in order to coal. problematize the traditional center/periphery bias of museum and collection studies. By jux- A point worth investigating was how some well taposing alternative approaches we introduce -known nineteenth-century palaeontologists previously understudied global narratives to used the sale of fossil specimens to fund their shape future research agendas. Moreover, as fieldwork, careers or even their every-day life some of the papers in this issue suggest, some and survival: that was the case of the museums actually acted as centers of fragmen- Ameghino brothers (mentioned by Virginia tation, confusion, and dispersion (Podgorny; Vanni et al.), Auguste Bravard (Podgorny) and Vanni et al.). In that sense, the papers here col- Santiago Roth (Hansen). Another significant lected are a plea to listen to the testimonials of way of building and increasing fossil collec- the historical actors that alerted of the dangers tions, especially in the nineteenth and early that the disorder created by the museums twentieth centuries, was through exchange (which was the

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