[Nhcoll-l] vacuum sealers

[Helen Kairo]

I use one routinely to ship wet specimens.

You can leave a little bit of air inside.

What I typically do is also wrap the wet specimens in paper towel or
alcohol moisten cotton. Specimens fixed to glass or any other backing can
the wrapped and sealed. I ship a lot of prosected specimens, and I wouldn't
do it any other way.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 9:12 AM Charles M. Dardia <cmd7 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Has any one had success using a vacuum sealer to prepare loans of wet
> specimens (fish) for shipping?
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