Edited sentence: DePalma curates his museum, the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History, through which he does his research.DePalma's treatment of his finds has therefore been controversial, but he defends his methods.Discoveries from Tanis have been kept in a lab at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History.Federally unfunded, he pays costs himself and helps this funding through the selling of specimen replicas to owners of private collections.His practices in managing the institution are considered non-standard.Private collections are largely considered a bad influence on palaeontology, and curators of larger museums are not allowed to possess any.The museum lacks public exhibition space, and Rudy Pascucci is the director.These include his direct control over the specimens he discovers, as opposed to the usual practice of ceding specimen ownership to the institution itself