[NHCOLL-L:5997] replacing steedmans solution with ?ethanol [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Felicity McEnnulty]

Hello all,

I am biodiversity curator at the Australian Antarctic Division and am working my way through our legacy collections. There is a considerable amount of zooplankton that was preserved in Steedmans fixative solution (propylene glycol, propylene phonoxetol, Formaldehyde 37%) and then preserved in steedmans storage solution (propylene glycol, propylene phonoxetol) once identified.

We are going through these collections to find representatives of each species to lodge at Australian Museums. Some of these samples are almost out of preservative. Does any one have a recommendation of what we can preserve them in to replace the Steedmans with as the museums are not keen on samples in Steedmans solutions. They were preserved in Steedmans to maintain flexability to allow the krill to be measured, now this has occurred they could be transferred to another medium if this is possible.

If anyone has experience in dealing with these samples and can recommend how to deal with them  I would love to hear from you.

Thanks,
Felicity



Felicity McEnnulty
Biodiversity Curator
Australian Antarctic Division
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
203 Channel Highway
Kingston Tasmania 7050
Australia
Ph: +61 3 6232 3368
Mob: +61 418502138
felicity.mcennulty at aad.gov.au<mailto:glenn.johnstone at aad.gov.au>

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