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69 listing of acquired objects year after year which, in sum, yield a genealogical description of all the collections of the Joanneum. A refl ective or evaluating feature is not germane. And then there are the commemorative publications on the occasion of the fi ftieth, one hundredth, one hundred and fi ftieth and bicentennial anniversa- ries with their articles on the development of the complete enterprise and the collections. Notwithstanding the statement of museum expert Kenneth Hudson ‘... muse- ums take on the colouring of the society in which their activity takes place…’, underlying tendencies should be unravelled after the fact and light cast on the marks that have been left on the present form in the course of the develop- ment of the museum. Fig.: Deed of donation from 16 July 1811, (original in the Styrian Provincial Archives).