[NHCOLL-L:1608] Re: road transport of wet specimens

[Tony Irwin]

Maggie -
Having recently been troubled with the prospect of moving pinned insects on
trolleys over architect-specified "textured" flooring, I came up with the
solution of supending a platform for the boxes on bungie rope. (Is that how
you spell that elastic stuff?)
I suggest you devise a similarly suspended box to contain the jars. Contact
me off-group if you want to discuss details.
Tony Irwin

Dr A.G.Irwin, Natural History Department, Castle Museum Study Centre,
Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich NR1 3JQ, England.
Tel:+44 1603 493642. E-mail: tony.irwin at btinternet.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "MAGGIE REILLY" <Mreilly at MUSEUM.GLA.AC.UK>
To: <nhcoll-l at lists.yale.edu>
Cc: "Linda Morris" <linda.morris at ncl.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:23 PM
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:1605] road transport of wet specimens


> Hello Folks
>
> I wonder if anyone can offer advice or help on this: we hope to lend
> another institution, amongst other things,  2 wet -preserved juvenile
> shark skeletons, both mounted in rectangular-section glass display
> jars with sealed-on glass plate lids. The specimens are tied onto glass
> backplates within the jar and the backplates are braced against the
> sides of the jar with rods set top and bottom. Road transport by van
> over ca 180 miles is necessary to get the specimens from us to them. I
> have concerns about properly packing these jars for transport to
> minimise the risk to the actual specimens from vibration. How best can
> one do this? We are not keen to remove the specimens from the jars
> and pack tehm separately. The dimensions of the jars are 80x14x12cm
> and 56x19x12cm.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Maggie Reilly
>
> Maggie Reilly
> Curator of Zoology
> Hunterian Museum - Zoology Section
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow G12 8QQ
> Scotland, U.K.
> Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4772
> Fax: +44 (0)141 330 5971
> mreilly at museum.gla.ac.uk
> Hunterian Museum web site - http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/
>
>