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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">Up to recently we had a giant squid
<i>Architeuthis </i>sp<i>. </i>in exhibition (“Liv in Vatten” = Life in Water/Aquatic life). It was contained in an aquarium, 80% ethanol (650 liters!). For the moment, we are planning for thorough modernization, i.e. the exhibition will be rebuilt from scratch
but we wish to keep the squid. It is very popular. However, we might face problems regarding fire safety regulations and one idea that came up was to transfer the specimen to weak formalin solution (1%).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">-Anyone having any experience and perhaps suggestions regarding concentration and suitable buffer?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">My limited experience is based on museum specimens (mainly fishes) that previously were in the old NRM exhibitions. I come across them now and then in the scientific collection
and according to older documents, the ethanol was replaced with formalin around 1960 because the expense. Anyway, this old exhibition jars with specimens look very nice (except for bleaching of specimens) and the fluid (formalin solution) looks like clear
water. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">All the best,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-US">Bo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Bo Delling, PhD
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Ichthyology</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Curator of Fishes and Herptiles</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:SV"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Swedish Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Department of Zoology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Frescativägen 44<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:SV">P.O. Box 50007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:SV">SE-104 05 Stockholm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:SV">Phone: +46 85195 4240<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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