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My name is Claire and I work in the Cole Museum of Zoology where I am conducting research into fluid preservation methods for my PhD. </div>
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Linked below is a short questionnaire about the different types of fluid preservation methods used in biological wet collections of all kinds. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">If you work in a museum or with a collection that has fluid-preserved specimens, please could either you, or the appropriate person in charge of the collection, fill in this questionnaire? We only need
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Thank you!</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes,<br>
Claire</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(50, 49, 48);">*******</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"><b>Claire Smith
</b>(she/her), AFHEA</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(50, 49, 48);"><b>Graduate Teaching Assistant & PhD Candidate, Cole Museum of Zoology</b></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(50, 49, 48);">University of Reading<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><a href="mailto:c.e.smith@pgr.reading.ac.uk" target="_blank" id="OWA790aa5c5-9998-433a-590f-3af4ea26b1aa" class="OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">c.e.smith@pgr.reading.ac.uk</a><br>
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