[NHCOLL-L:1857] tracking down herp specimens

[Carla Cicero]

NHCOLL -

We are winding up a project on recurating our tissue collections, and in 
the process came across some herp tissue samples for which we have tried to 
track down information. Unfortunately, we have not succeeded, so perhaps 
someone on this listserv can help.

We have two small boxes of tissues in cryogenic vials labeled with "RSL" 
field numbers. These numbers are fairly high (i.e., > 4000), and so they 
probably were collected by someone other than a graduate student or 
amateur. Unfortunately, no one in the MVZ has any recollection of who they 
might belong to, i.e., we can't seem to associate anyone at MVZ with those 
initials. Some tissues are whole animals (tadpoles?), but there are no 
taxonomic names on the vials that might help us associate the tissues with 
a researcher. It's possible that they were brought to the MVZ by a visiting 
researcher or postdoc. In any case, I'm wondering if anyone on this list 
might recognize the initials for those tissues.

Thanks in advance.

Carla Cicero


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Carla Cicero, Ph.D
Curator and Researcher
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720-3160
PHONE: 510-642-7868; FAX: 510-643-8238
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ccicero/
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/
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