[Nhcoll-l] Long-term preservation of crustaceans

[Callomon,Paul]

Can anyone point me to literature on deterioration in dry-stored crustacean specimens? Our collection has a large and important body of 19th-century crustacean type material that is stored dry. I would like to know as much as possible about long-term decay of these and other proteinous exoskeletons in order to determine the best storage method from now.

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
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1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA
callomon at ansp.org<mailto:callomon at ansp.org> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170

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