<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(153,0,255)">The insect/arachnid/myriapod and other invertebrate collections at the Field Museum have used aluminum trays for years to hold jars of various sizes in our closed steel cabinets. The photo shows our standard 2 oz jars (used mostly for 16,000+ bulk samples), but we also store half-liter French jars in the trays and narrower but taller old Mason jars in a narrower size. The main intention was simply improving access to jars in the back, allowing us to have low clearance between the jar tops and the shelves. It makes a huge difference in the efficiency of moving collections around. I'm not aware that we ever had any issues with the fire marshal about them. (Jars sitting on top of jars is NOT part of the storage system! I took the photo years ago for a talk about the contents of the jars.)</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Callomon,Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu" target="_blank">prc44@drexel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know of a fluid collection in which loose bottles and jars have been placed in long, narrow open-top boxes or trays on open shelving? We are considering doing this, in order to make our collection both safer and easier to maintain.
I know many Entomology collections arrange 4- and 6-dram vials in long racks (we do this too), but I haven’t seen the same thing done for larger bottles and jars.
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