With this collection the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona aims to continue the task begun in the last century by the Junta de Ciències Naturals (Board of Natural Sciences) of making its museological and museographic resources available to the general public.
The publications initiated by the Board are excellent evidence of the relevance gained by that organism and of its far-sightedness, ahead of its time, regarding the relation between developed societies and respect for natural resources, primarily in the nineteen-twenties.
The Board's scientific journals vary greatly in style and content, and comprise the period between 1917 and 1957; in 1917 it published the collection Musei Barcinonensis Scientiarum Naturalium Opera, which in 1919 was entitled Treballs del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona and from 1984 to 1995 became Treballs del Museu de Zoologia.
