Curatorial bees

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Everyone,

This is sort of late notice, but here's the link to photos and Aleta's
facebook call for volunteers to help transfer our "lab trailer" of
specimens to shipping containers from which we will be able to transfer
them to a space where we'll be able to process them for deposit in
museums -
https://www.facebook.com/aleta.karstad/posts/pfbid0kwLUNLJZtw6EDhB4TmWMtEHghv91Q5Co3P4QnUoZCckaHd57T9e4G1T4p1sq7t8Wl

Today's bee starts in 35 minutes, and runs till dusk, and tomorrow's
starts at 14h00 and goes on... We're taking stuff out of the lab
trailer, sorting either onto carefully wrapped shelves in cabinets in
the container in our driveway, or sending boxes and bins and bottles of
fluid-preserved stuff to a to-be-stationary container on Totem Ranch Road.

It's appalling how much stuff you can collect or be given in 35 years
("Look, here's a package of flat Vole skins collected in the Arctic in
1958!"), and while the process fairly frightens me ("I'll have to work
full time until I'm 110 to get this all processed!"), those who have
been helping have found it pretty exciting.

fred.
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Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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