[NHCOLL-L:1605] road transport of wet specimens

[MAGGIE REILLY]

Hello Folks

I wonder if anyone can offer advice or help on this: we hope to lend 
another institution, amongst other things,  2 wet -preserved juvenile 
shark skeletons, both mounted in rectangular-section glass display 
jars with sealed-on glass plate lids. The specimens are tied onto glass 
backplates within the jar and the backplates are braced against the 
sides of the jar with rods set top and bottom. Road transport by van 
over ca 180 miles is necessary to get the specimens from us to them. I 
have concerns about properly packing these jars for transport to 
minimise the risk to the actual specimens from vibration. How best can 
one do this? We are not keen to remove the specimens from the jars 
and pack tehm separately. The dimensions of the jars are 80x14x12cm 
and 56x19x12cm. 

Thanks for any help

Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly
Curator of Zoology
Hunterian Museum - Zoology Section
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ 
Scotland, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4772
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 5971
mreilly at museum.gla.ac.uk
Hunterian Museum web site - http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/