{"id":1040,"date":"2012-02-28T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T07:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/new\/?page_id=1040"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:36:06","slug":"contact-horg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=1040","title":{"rendered":"Contact HORG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"card-greeny\">Contact<\/div>\n<div class=\"card-greeny\">HORG<\/div>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>To contact HORG, send a missive to occlupanid @ horg dot com.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute;left: -8520px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coinexchangecanada.ca\/\">https:\/\/coinexchangecanada.ca\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p>HORG posts new species discoveries and other news at <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/occlupanid.bsky.social\">@occlupanid.bksy.social<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57\" title=\"taxon_archi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/taxon_archi.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/>The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study, education, and preservation of a group of inanimate objects that garners little attention in our modern world. Its use in our society is ignored, and its fascinating forms and colors are underappreciated. In order to promote greater occlupanid awareness, and to introduce a comprehensive taxonomy to the scientific community, HORG was founded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How You Can Help<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you think you have found an occlupanid that is not in the HORG database, please consider sending the specimen, along with any relevant data, to the address below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>2111 San Pablo Ave #2243<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Berkeley CA 94702-9991<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>USA<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We welcome any and all such contributions to science! If you have found an occlupanid in a unique location, or discovered a new biome of an existing species, please let us know! We are also especially on the lookout for rare occlupanids of <em>any<\/em> species of the following families: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=784\">Acutignathidae<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=788\">Angulognathidae<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=792\">Concavigulidae<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=1532\">Kamptoconidae<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=1715\">Odontotrochidae<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=1155\">Spinosacculidae<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Our global-outreach division is also hoping to acquire specimens from Russia, China, and the continents of South America, Africa and Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>The fields of synthetic taxonomy are ever-expanding, thanks in large part to the planet-wide network of tireless and entirely unpaid amateur occlupanologists such as yourself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61\" title=\"taxon_toxo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/taxon_toxo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1125\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/collection_folder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1125\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1125\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"collection_folder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/collection_folder-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/collection_folder-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/collection_folder-190x110.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/collection_folder.jpg 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HORG collection holdings<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p><strong>Identification Placards<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61 alignleft\" title=\"taxon_haplo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/taxon_haplo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/>The Graphical Outreach team at HORG is proud to offer this free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/horg_collection_page_blank.pdf\">print-your-own set of cut-out identifcation placards<\/a> for the excitable amateur scientists out there who want to start their own collection! Each placard is sized for a standard vinyl 20-count coin pocket page, ready for your own archival grade three-ring binder that you purchase on your own without our help!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Artist-scholar Alex Stoner has designed a clever variation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/placards_dual_v3.pdf\">folding identification placards<\/a>. Useful for those discerning archivists who desire more available substrate for recording data, and snappy framing for displayed specimens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/placards_dual_v3.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3793 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/placards_foldover-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/placards_foldover-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/placards_foldover.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact HORG To contact HORG, send a missive to occlupanid @ horg dot com. https:\/\/coinexchangecanada.ca\/ HORG posts new species discoveries and other news at @occlupanid.bksy.social The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study, education, and preservation of a group of inanimate objects that garners little attention in our modern world. 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