[Nhcoll-l] EXT : The Dangerous Museum

[Dietrich, Elizabeth]

Been there, done that
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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] on behalf of Callomon,Paul [prc44 at drexel.edu]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 2:12 PM
To: Doug Yanega; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] EXT : The Dangerous Museum

How did I learn that Nalgene bottles have a limited shelf life?
We had a bird gut collection that somehow found its way into my invertebrate alcohol rooms (presumably because ducks ingest invertebrates, I don’t know). Hundreds of Nalgene bottles full of nominally pickled avian digestive tracts. Curious as to the resilience of the plastic, I absent-mindedly picked a bottle off the shelf at about head height and gave it a squeeze. Don’t do this. Burning the clothes might remove the physical cause of the stink, but it’s imprinted in your brain forever.

PC