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An Inside Look At University Fish Collection

Started by Guest_AC-Editor_* , Sep 06 2007 10:31 AM

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#1 Guest_AC-Editor_*

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Posted 06 September 2007 - 10:31 AM

BTW, Joe Nelson is author of FISHES OF ALBERTA and the essential FISHES OF THE WORLD (now in its 4th edition).

http://www.canada.co...tion/index.html

Chris Scharpf
NANFA HQ

#2 Guest_fundulus_*

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Posted 06 September 2007 - 10:50 AM

Just like I thought, his collection is bigger than mine.

#3 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 06 September 2007 - 09:54 PM

That's the most well currated, clean collection I've ever lain mine eyes upon. Maybe more isn't better

Todd

#4 Guest_ashtonmj_*

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Posted 07 September 2007 - 07:38 AM

That's the most well currated, clean collection I've ever lain mine eyes upon. Maybe more isn't better

Todd

I'd agree! Where's the dust!?!

#5 Guest_Histrix_*

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 05:23 PM

Ours is bigger... but dustier. And what, no random dried puddles of sticky brown liquid on the floor?

#6 Guest_farmertodd_*

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 08:00 PM

Like I said, maybe more isn't better

#7 Guest_Brooklamprey_*

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Posted 14 September 2007 - 09:10 PM

That looks like a rather new collection in a new building.. give it 50 years..random dust and puddles of sticky stuff will follow.

#8 Guest_bpkeck_*

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 05:18 PM

I helped move the UTenn. collection between buildings... TWICE! The first time there were jars with an inch of dust on them, jars with crispy fish, jars with moldy brown soup. Opening a 5 gal bucket that's gone south is not a pleasant experience and can effectively clear a room in seconds. Luckily the collection is housed in a much better facility now and there shouldn't be as many problems.

#9 Guest_Irate Mormon_*

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Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:34 PM

What did you do with the crispy/southward bound specimens?

#10 Guest_TomNear_*

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Posted 19 September 2007 - 06:17 PM

What did you do with the crispy/southward bound specimens?

I know that Ben did not throw out the crispy ones! If he did, I am going to tell Ets!
T$

#11 Guest_bpkeck_*

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Posted 25 September 2007 - 07:15 PM

The crispy ones are still there. If there were bones/scales left we kept them. The soup was strained just incase there was anything left. The buckets that were rancid were all teaching collection buckets and Ets dumped them down the toilet... nobody used that bathroom for a week. The number of specimens we found that were soup probably amounted to 1/10th the number of specimens that have been on loan for more than 15 yrs, even a few on loan from the 70's.