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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear Dr. Uribe and others,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">At SPNHC in Berlin in June I plan to give a presentation describing this project, and will bring along samples of the vial racks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">PC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Paul Callomon</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<i>Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates</i></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<i><a href="mailto:callomon@ansp.org" target="_blank">callomon@ansp.org</a> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> URIBE PORTA, FRANCESC [mailto:furibe@bcn.cat]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Callomon,Paul<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Nhcoll-l] Vial jar system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear Dr. Callomon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Your emphasis on the human factor for the long term conservation of samples is very encouraging in current times, so technological. We absolutely agree in the need of eye guided plans of conservation. In our modest malacological
collection of wet samples we have shifted to a “vials in racks” model. One of the main reasons, among others, for this change is just the hope of improving how to inspect the condition of vials. Your system of trays and shelves seems to be a very relevant
approach to this goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We hope to read <span style="color:black">
in the near future </span>a paper <span style="color:black">by you</span> <span style="color:black">
showing</span> details <span style="color:black">about</span> the aforementioned model. In
<i>Collection Forum</i>? Any draft of this paper or basic description of the system will be very welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Yours sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Francesc Uribe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dr. Francesc Uribe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Departament Non-Arthropods Invertebrates<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">P.Picasso s/n, 08302 Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">De:</span></b><span lang="CA" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu">mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>]
<b>En nom de </b>Callomon,Paul<br>
<b>Enviat:</b> dimecres, 16 / març / 2016 21:35<br>
<b>Per a:</b> Alexandra Snyder; Simon Moore<br>
<b>A/c:</b> <a href="mailto:nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu">nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
<b>Tema:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Vial jar system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.
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