[Nhcoll-l] many specimens in one jar

[Simon Moore]

In my former employment, we would wait for a local (usually retired) carcinologist to visit and let them to go through and identify each species and then add the name to the tube label.  If time permitted we would then add each species name to the database, else the generic name would be added only but in red print indicating that further work was required.

With all good wishes, Simon

Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR
Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian,

www.natural-history-conservation.com


> On 7 Dec 2022, at 07:44, Lennart Lennuk <Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
>  
> What is your practices preserving many specimens in one jar. It is quite impossible to mark them all with ID ohter than butting every specimen separately into glasstube. What might be the problems if there are for example 10 individuals of Palaemon in one jar and the ID-s are only on the main label?
> 
> Should we count each individual as specimen or should we take them as unit and describe in database how many individuals one unit holds?
>  
> Best regards!
> Lennart Lennuk
> Head of collections
> Estonian Museum of Natural History
> +372 6603404, 56569916
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