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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Dorothy,<br>
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I think we all appreciate your update; this diary-form is a
helpful format to follow your decision making process.<br>
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Thanks for sharing and keeping us updated (wishing you every
possible success for the tasks ahead)!<br>
Dirk <br>
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Am 12.08.2017 um 16:54 schrieb Dorothy Allard:<br>
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<div><font size="2">Hello everyone<br>
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It has been nine days since the fire in Torrey Hall that
affected the Pringle Herbarium and the mammal and arthropod
collections that together comprise our natural history
museum.
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The first three days (Friday-Sunday) were occupied by
removing water-damaged materials, including some accessioned
lichens and some unaccessioned vascular plant specimens,
preparing them for freezing, and freezing them. We got good
advice and help from our library Special Collections staff,
who gave us two Disaster Kits that they had prepared in case
something like this affected their collections, but which
were very useful for us as well. Through the internet, we
also learned about Harvard Herbarium's experience with a
water damage episode. <br>
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In those three days, numerous volunteers came together to
move stuff and do the freezing prep. We threw out some wet
stuff that was too far gone to save, or that was identified
as second priority.
</font><font size="2">It was a complicated and chaotic scene,
since there were two different construction crews on site
(one that was working on an adjacent building), the water
damage specialists, university physical plant people, the
biologists, and the volunteers.
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Also, by the end of the weekend, the water damage
specialists had cleaned out all of the wet ceiling tile and
placed huge ventilation tubes throughout the building to dry
it out. A lot of hard work by a lot of people made this
happen quickly.<br>
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It took from Monday to Friday to move the herbarium cabinets
out of Torrey and across campus to Jeffords Hall, the Plant
Biology and Plant and Soil Sciences building. Dave
Barrington and our Physical Plant people orchestrated the
move, with a lot of help from Hilda White and Eunice
Froeliger, volunteers who work in the herbarium. Hilda and
Eunice had the difficult job of figuring out the placement
of 200 or so cabinets on two different floors and in several
different rooms in Jeffords, mainly in the basement, in a
way that the cabinets could still be accessed and be
distributed in roughly the right order. They made it happen.
We hired two giant cranes, one at Torrey to remove the
cabinets through a hole in the roof or out windows and place
them on a moving truck, one to take the cabinets off the
trucks and put them into Jeffords. They were removed with
their contents inside, since the specimens were mainly
unaffected by the fire or water. Some of the cabinets had to
be tipped on their side in order to go on the elevator in
Jeffords, and we found that if tipped only on their left
side (the fold side of the genus folders), the specimens
remained intact. Specimens in packets had to be boxed before
the cabinets were moved.<br>
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<font size="2"><font size="2">The frozen materials that we
saved are being shipped to a special facility in
Massachusetts for freeze-drying.</font></font> All of
the rest of the contents of Torrey has been, or is being,
removed, cleaned, and stored in Jeffords. We are now
setting up temporary operating space for the herbarium and
the digitization lab there.
</font><font size="2"><font size="2">There are mountains of
boxes to go through and reorganize.
</font>The interior of Torrey will be gutted and completely
renovated; the exterior was in the process of restoration at
the time of the fire and that will continue. The whole thing
is expected to take 18-24 months.<br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I thought that you all would
appreciate an update.</span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dorothy J. Allard</span><br>
<font size="2">Pringle Herbarium<br>
Plant Biology<br>
University of Vermont</font><br>
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