[Nhcoll-l] Separating different species in drums

[Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)]

Hello all,

I think this has been discussed before, but I am wondering what kinds of solutions people have when several species need to be placed into the same spirit receptacle. In our case, I am talking about mid-sized terrestrial vertebrates....we have a drum shortage because of a factory fire and we're a bit desperate. The specimens all have registration tags attached to them, so it's not a matter of not getting the specimens mixed up permanently, it's simply an issue of ease of finding the species and the specimen in a mixed drum. One solution I think I have heard people talking about is placing specimens into mesh fabric bags to keep them separate...the kind that holds delicates like bras for the wash springs to mind, but I am not sure about their archival nature, and I don't want to create a future problem.  I guess I could use zip loc bags with holes in them for fluid flow, but again I am not sure that's a great long-term solution. I suppose I could even sew some archival fabric bags with a sinch top, but if there is a ready-made solution I would prefer that. I also wonder whether there is an easy way to label or find the separate bags - I kind of imagine a fishing float with registration numbers engraved in it or something like that....but again that's probably not archival in ethanol. Anyway, any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!

Cheers,

Tonya

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Dr. Tonya M. Haff
Collection Manager
Australian National Wildlife Collection
CSIRO
+61(0)419569109
https://www.csiro.au/en/about/facilities-collections/collections/anwc

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