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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The (former) Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen (now part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark) uses wooden trays in almost every
wet collection, except for large size specimens and containers, which won’t fit in. They are kept on open metal shelves. I believe we have three standard sizes, depending on the shelf dimensions, the largest trays being about 24 x 50 x 7 cm. They are stable
and reasonably comfortable to take out carry. They are not considered to increase the fire hazard to any significant degree, but on the other hand I am not aware that there have been serious calculations on that subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Margaret Thayer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24. juni 2014 04:19<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Alcohol bottle trays<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#9900FF">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.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#9900FF">Margaret K. Thayer, Ph.D.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Callomon,Paul <<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu" target="_blank">prc44@drexel.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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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