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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">For new health and safety procedures we are tying to find out if specimens in collections that are intrinsically poisonous can still be a hazard to work with. Think about venomous snakes in ethanol or formalin, stone fish, mollusks. Does anyone has experience with this? Do you have special safety procedures for working with these type of specimens or is there really nothing to worry about after fixation/preservation. </span> <br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div> <div><br></div><div>Many thanks!</div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Esther Dondorp</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">Collection manager Reptiles and Amphibians</font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">T
+31 (0)71 751 9313, M +31 (0)6 4870 4107</span></div><div><span style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, The Netherlands</span><br></div><div><a href="mailto:estherdondorp@naturalis.nl" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">E
estherdondorp@naturalis.nl</span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:black;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.naturalis.nl&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=8dWh4XH9sXsq0jpP3x0OPRXxCWHKNU5xtE2cZ-WBh-w&s=WEqJZwADm_b0Z-HAjiiZ102nJHUumGPMSperdYApJxk&e=" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">I </a></span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.naturalis.nl_&d=DwMFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=8dWh4XH9sXsq0jpP3x0OPRXxCWHKNU5xtE2cZ-WBh-w&s=JyKhdpI_1md8D5QDxflW33VXlUf9JglXTfz9fAXSOY0&e=" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:x-small;line-height:13.8000001907349px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">www.naturalis.n</span></a></div></div><p><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16.8px">Due to the construction of new public museum facilities, depots, labs and offices, the zoological, geological and paleontological collections of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden will be closed to all visitors</span></font><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:small"> </span><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0)">till at least December 2018</u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:small">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:small">We apologize for this inconvenience.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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