[Nhcoll-l] Bird eggs in ethanol

[Bauer, Belinda]

Hello,

I have a collection of frozen bird eggs that I need to catalogue and move out of the freezer.

Many are from listed/ threatened species and important to keep but are damaged or crushed and not suitable for blowing.
All still have some sort of contents, even a few that look to have small embryos.

I was wondering if I could preserve these sorts of specimens in ethanol?
I couldn't find any resources online about if ethanol has any long term implications on the shell, but I assume it would be ok.

Do any other collections have bird eggs prepared in this way?  Can I just inject a small amount of fluid into eggs that have hairline cracks to ensure fluid penetration?

Kind regards
Belinda

Belinda Bauer  |  Collection Manager - Vertebrate Zoology

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery  |  Department of State Growth
19 Davey Street, Hobart TAS 7000  | GPO Box 1164, Hobart TAS 7001
Ph. (03) 6165 6899  |  Mob 0438 170 831

Please Note: My current work pattern is Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays


________________________________

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
The information in this transmission may be confidential and/or protected by legal professional privilege, and is intended only for the person or persons to whom it is addressed. If you are not such a person, you are warned that any disclosure, copying or dissemination of the information is unauthorised. If you have received the transmission in error, please immediately contact this office by telephone, fax or email, to inform us of the error and to enable arrangements to be made for the destruction of the transmission, or its return at our cost. No liability is accepted for any unauthorised use of the information contained in this transmission.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/nhcoll-l/attachments/20230525/9b8bd0d2/attachment.html>