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<div>I do know of some ichthyology collections that arrange their specimen bottles on cardboard "flats" on shelves to facilitate moving and working with collections. However, I would check with your fire marshal to see he/she is OK it's this. Our fire marshal
would not allow us to have anything of trays of any sort as he want water from the sprinkler system to be able to permeate down through the shelves to lower shelves in the event of a fire. It is however a trade off between this and containing any liquid that
may be released from any broken jars in such a tray.</div>
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On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:58 PM, "Callomon,Paul" <<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu">prc44@drexel.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Paul Callomon</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><br>
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<i><a href="mailto:callomon@ansp.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">callomon@ansp.org</span></a> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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