<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks Lex and Paul,<div><br></div><div>All of this puts me in mind of Thomas Pole’s rather infamous but insightful remark:
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is found to be attended with no small difficulty, to enclose wet preparations
in glasses, so as to prevent effectually the evaporation of the spirits, which
occasions very considerable trouble, and no small expense to keep a large
anatomical collection in good order</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">”</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Thomas Pole, 1790.</span></span></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font>
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<br><div><div>On 16 Mar 2016, at 20:35, Callomon,Paul <<a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu">prc44@drexel.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In moving from a “many vials in one jar” to “vials in racks” model, we acknowledged that a regular inspection and maintenance cycle is essential in a fluid-preserved collection, and must be scheduled into funded staff time. No combination of jars and closures that is economically viable can guarantee against failure, 100%, indefinitely. Reducing the total number of closures for a given number of lots does reduce the time it takes to inspect, but against that must be weighed the demerits already discussed here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We designed new metal trays for our jars and vials that slide on and off shelves smoothly and allow up to 50 containers of mixed sizes to be inspected simultaneously. This is the first major rehousing of the 50,000-jar Malacology wet collection since 1976, and we anticipate re-lidding everything again in another 40 years. Next time, however, it will go a lot faster.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">We will be writing this up in due course, but in the meantime anyone interested in learning more about this tray system can contact me off line.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Paul Callomon</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br><i>Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br><i><a href="mailto:callomon@ansp.org" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">callomon@ansp.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>