[Nhcoll-l] Guata / Watte for curation subjects

[Callomon,Paul]

I agree that the risk of Byne's Disease from cotton alone is far lower than that from wooden storage cases. Cotton is cellulose, but the mass of that material per cubic inch is far lower compared with wood. We remove cotton where we find it in the collections, but in terms of strategy have concentrated more on replacing wood and wood-based materials like Masonite and plywood.


Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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