07

Yang, T. Y. Aleck, the associate researcher of the Botany Department visited Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Pattaya of Thailand. Aleck also met the Park's Director General, Mr. Kampon Tansacha, and received 15 different species of palm seedlings and 8 different species of palm seeds from the Garden.

07.17

The Museum held a special exhibition titled "The Story of Ancient People in Taichung" to display the animal bones and artifacts excavated by the Museum archaeologists in the Hui-Lai Li Archaeological Site. The Minister of Education, Du, Jheng-sheng, was invited to preside at the commencement ceremony.

08

Two distinguished guests from the Center for Tropical Forest Science were accompanied by Professor Sun, Yi-fang of the Department of Life Science, Tunghai University to visit the Museum and the Botanical Garden.

08.03

The Museum was a liaison for the traveling exhibit "The Fairy on the Cliff: Special exhibition of Lilium speciosum var. gloriosoides Baker" in China.

08.12

The Museum held the "Examination of Mac-rofungi Seminar" to promote educational activities introducing macrofungi.

08.31

Academic Deputy Director, Chou, Wen-hao examined the mitochondria DNA and voiceprints of Polypedates megacephalus. He later renamed it as Polypedates braueri (White-lipped Tree Frog).

09.09

The Museum held the "Museum, Knowledge Construct and Modernity: Seminar during the Celebration of the Seventieth Birthday of Director Han, Pao-teh."

09

Museum staff paid a visit to the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History.

10

Mr. Ted Herrington, a botanical scholar from the US, visited the Botanical Garden of the Museum. The Botanical Garden made an arrangement for the scholar to collect specimens in the field of Mt. Chilanshan (Ilan), and Mt. Hohuanshan (Nantou).

10

Mr. Richard Hayward and Richard Martin, both fern experts, came to examine the fern plants at the Botanical Garden of the Museum and visited the upland ferns at Meifong Farm (Nantou) with Dr. Yen, Hsin-fu.

10.22

The Museum held a workshop on the collection research and management techniques of the Nature Center of Taiping City Exhibit Hall.

11.02

Director Li, Chia-wei was sponsored by the Bureau of Foreign Trade's "Cultural Reward Project" to visit Australia.

11.18

Dr. Cheng, Yen-nien from the Geology Department, Dr. Wu, Xiao-chun from the Canadian Museums of Nature in Ottawa, and Dr. Ji, Qiang from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing published a paper titled "Triassic marine reptiles gave birth to live young" in Nature.

12

The Museum held the Fifth Avian Biology Seminar across the Strait.

12

Yang, T. Y. Aleck, the associate researcher of the Botany Department visited the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney and Royal Botanic Garden, Monta Anna Botanic Garden, Australia. Aleck also discussed with Ms. Sally McGeoch, the manager of Wollemi Pine International Company, the Museum's donation of living Wollemi Pine to the Company and asked the Company to assist in investigating the details of exporting Australian plants to Taiwan.

12.14

A retired professor from Nagoya Women's University, internationally well-known Coleoptera expert, Sato Masatakai, donated to the Museum more than 100,000 pieces of insect specimens that he collected over the last 40 years. It was the largest single donation received by the Museum since its establishment.

12.23

The performance of our Director, Li, Chia-wei, was rated by the Ministry of Education as "Excellent," the best rating.

12.23

The Museum and the National Taiwan Museum cooperated to duplicate and exchange the replicas of Bubalus teilhardi and Rhinoceros sinensis hayasakai.

12.24

The Museum held a press conference for the "Donating and Planting Ceremony of Rueensland Bottle tree(T. Mitch. ex Lindl.) K. Schum." and the "Establishment of the Australian Plant Area." The two Rueensland Bottle tree(T. Mitch. ex Lindl.) K. Schum. are the most noticeable trees being introduced into the Australian Plant Area.