<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Greg's suggestion is excellent. A few other vendors of conservation supplies carry similar materials as well.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The problem with using materials such as toilet tissue is that there is no guarantee when the loan will be unpacked and the bad packing materials discarded. I have seen dozens and dozens of examples of museum specimens packed with "temporary" materials that turned into long-term storage materials due to oversight, accident, or ignorance, any one of which carries the same potential for specimen damage. For example, I have spent the last few years helping unpack specimens that were "temporarily" packed with PVC dry cleaner bags 10 years ago--the bags are now turning yellow and degrading. At the time the specimens were packed, probably no one thought it would be ten years before they were unpacked.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Whether you are packing specimens for shipment of preparing to put specimens into the collection, only stable, inert materials should be used. In almost any collection you can find examples of offgassing plastic, deteriorating rubber bands, acidic paper, and all sorts of other "temporary" materials that inadvertently became long-term, often to the detriment of the specimen.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">--John<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">John E. Simmons<br>Museologica<br>128 E. Burnside Street<br>Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823-2010<br><a href="mailto:simmons.johne@gmail.com" target="_blank">simmons.johne@gmail.com</a><br>303-681-5708<br><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.museologica.com&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=SJCuW0wi4kjNfjAFAG2NTr4bkaHoWYMLspe8WjE-Umc&s=_Qoi3xr6F04lq0goYIokmk0OjsY5Wg9IbKd7rAkUGG8&e=" target="_blank">www.museologica.com</a><br>and<br>Adjunct Curator of Collections<br>Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery<br>Penn State University<br>University Park, Pennsylvania<br>and<br>Instructor, Museum Studies<br>School of Library and Information Science<br>Kent State University<br>and<br>Lecturer in Art<br>Juniata College<br>Huntingdon, Pennsylvania<br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Gregory Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ges@umich.edu" target="_blank">ges@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">probably spun polyester batting or tissue - gaylord has it<div><br></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.gaylord.com_c_Wrapping-2DLining-2Dand-2DSupport-2DMaterials&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=Feyma_fP3iPB5YYlqlF6PKZ0pD12QHHM0cQ_ikhI8a8&s=6wv166lXqNtjrb8nmaYGlO5nRidGw1O5oPfz0Vi2l9c&e=" target="_blank">http://www.gaylord.com/c/Wrapping-Lining-and-Support-Materials</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Cody Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwthomp@umich.edu" target="_blank">cwthomp@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif"><div>Hello all:</div><div><br></div><div>The UMMZ Mammal Division is beginning our packing process for our relocation. Does anyone have any recommendations for acid-free tissue that could be used to pack skulls and skeletons in vials? We typically would use toilet tissue for packing loans, but we would prefer to leave the tissue in the vial until the specimens are accessed again for research, loans, etc. We are not planning to wrap the specimens individually as we would for loans; rather, we plan to use the tissue to stabilize the material in the vial for transport. Therefore, we need a product that has the flexibility of toilet tissue and could potentially be in the vial for years. Anyhow, I would appreciate any suggestions!</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Cody</div><div><br></div><div><font style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium" color="#000000">Cody W. Thompson, PhD</font><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><font color="#000000">Mammal Collections Manager</font></div><div style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><font color="#000000">& Assistant Research Scientist<br></font><div><font color="#000000">University of Michigan</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Museum of Zoology</font></div><div><font color="#000000">1109 Geddes Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Office: <a href="tel:%28734%29%20615-2810" value="+17346152810" target="_blank">(734) 615-2810</a></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Fax: <a href="tel:%28734%29%20763-4080" value="+17347634080" target="_blank">(734) 763-4080</a></font></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:cwthomp@umich.edu" target="_blank">cwthomp@umich.edu</a></div><div>Website: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__codythompson51.wordpress.com&d=AwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=Feyma_fP3iPB5YYlqlF6PKZ0pD12QHHM0cQ_ikhI8a8&s=0brlf1_C7EQ_K1mWkRjXQSmKFRYQVdQRirhW9knXG5A&e=" target="_blank">codythompson51.wordpress.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."</div><div>-Aldo Leopold</div></div></div></div>
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