[Nhcoll-l] Vial jar system for easier specimen collection maintenance

[Dirk Neumann]

... this is a very well considered system to maintain such delicate 
specimens - thanks for sharing this information!
Dirk


Am 15.03.2016 um 19:34 schrieb Alexandra Snyder:
> The MSB Division of Fishes uses a system of vial jars to contain 
> collections of small fishes and/or small numbers of specimens (single 
> cataloged lots), delicate larval fishes and eggs, collections of 
> excised stomachs and gonads, and developmental series of fish larvae.
>
> The products used:  8 and 10 dram boroscilliate glass  shell vials, 
> absorbent cotton plugs, 3 liter Le Parfait captive lid jars with Duro 
> Buna N rubber gaskets, DataMax vial labels and jar label.
>
> No more than 40 vials (or two layers) can be stored in one jar.  I do 
> not use jars larger than 3 liters (or the ease of finding one vial is 
> defeated) but will utilize smaller French captive lid jars 1 and 2 
> liter) with N-Buna gaskets for specialized/static collections.  The 
> vial jars are topped off before they are stored in the cataloged 
> collections.
>
> I have used this system for storing small collections in two different 
> collections that I have managed.  The MSB system has been in place for 
> 25 years and over 1/3 of our collection (about 40,000 lots) is 
> archived in the vial jar system. We are a collection that serves 
> research in desert fish ecology-life histories and changes in aquatic 
> systems of NM and the desert SW so our collections contain many larval 
> fishes and redundant series from monitoring work.  The MSB Divisions 
> of Arthropods and Parasites also use a vial jar system with 1 liter Le 
> Parfait jars and N-Buna gaskets.
>
>  I tried attaching a picture of these vial jars but it was rejected.   
> If you have further questions feel free to email me and I can send 
> more information.
>
>
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> Museum of Southwestern Biology MSC03-2020
> University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131
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