Collection care publications

McCoy, C.J.1993.Packing Fluid-Preserved Herpetological Specimens For Shipment. Collection Forum, 9(2):70-75.

Myers, George S. 1956. Brief Directions for Preserving and Shipping Specimens of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles. Natural History Museum of Stanford University, California.

Bayless, Jonathan and Charles Shepherd. 1993. Removing Wet Specimens from Long-Term Storage in Formalin. Conserve O Gram, 11(1):1-4.

Bucklin, A. and L.D. Allen. 2004. MtDNA Sequencing from Zooplankton after Long-Term Preservation in Buffered Formalin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30:879-882.

Camacho, Ana Isabel and Jose Bedoya. 1994. Evaluation of the Effects of Different Preservative and Fixative Fluids on Aquatic Invertebrates from Interstitial Waters. Collection Forum, 10(1):20-31.

Hawks, Catharine. 2003. Re-Use of Ethanol in Processing Biological Specimens. Conserve O Gram, 11(5):1-4.

Molin, Daniel G.M. and Andries J. van Dam. 2006. A Preservation Method Supporting Multipurpose Analysis of Long-Stored Samples. Cell Preservation Technology, 4(1):48-52.

Raloff, Janet. 1985. Unwanted formaldehyde ‘breakthrough.’ Science News, 127(19):297.

Simmons, J. 1999. Storage Concerns for Fluid-Preserved Collections. Conserve O Gram, 11(3):1-4.

Simmons, J. 2001. Safe Storage and Handling of Natural History Specimens Preserved in Fluid. Conserve O Gram, 2(18):1-4.

Taylor, William H. 1977. Observations on Specimen Fixation. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(4):753-763.

van Dam, Andries J. 2003. DMDM-Hydantoin: The promising Result of a Search for an Alternative in Fluid Preservation of Biological Specimens. Collection Forum, 18(1-2):104-115.

van Dam, Andries J. 2006. FAQs about “Kaiserling III” fluid perservative. SPNHC Newsletter 20(1):14-15.

Walker, H.J., George H. Burgess, Arnold Y. Suzumoto, et. al. 1995. Isopropanol Revisited. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) Curation Newsletter No. 11:3-4.

Waller, Robert, and Don E. McAllister. 1985. A Spot Test For Distinguishing Formalin From Alcohol Solutions. Proceedings of the 1985 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections:93-99.

Waller, Robert, and Thomas J.K. Strang. 1996. Physical Chemical Properties of Preservative Solutions I. Ethanol-Water Solutions. Collection Forum, 12(2):70-85.

Estep, Amy D. 2004. Use of Polycarbonate Food Storage Pails in Wet Collections. SPNHC Newsletter, 18(1):2.

Gillette, Janet Whitmore. 2004. Jar Sealing Tape for Use with Fluid-Preserved Collections: A Summary of Recommendations and Sources. SPNHC Newsletter, 18(2):15.

Steigerwald, Michele and Sylvie Laframboise. 1996. Tape Application: A Jar Sealing Method for Reducing Ethanol Evaporation in Fluid-Preserved Collections. Collection Forum, 12(2):45-54.

Gershwin, L. 2002. Curating Medusae. Electronic internet document available at http://www.medusozoa.com/curating.html. Published by the author, web page established May 2002, last updated 30 November, 2003.

Andrei, Mary Anne and Hugh H. Genoways. 1999. Changes in pH in Museum Storage Fluids, I-Effects of Resistall Paper Labels. Collection Forum 13(2): 63-75.

Bentley, Andrew C. 2004. Thermal Transfer Printers - Applications in Wet Collections. SPNHC Newsletter 18(2):1-2, 17-18.

Hawks, Catharine A. and Stephen L. Williams. 1985. Care of Specimen Labels in Vertebrate Research Collections. Proceedings of the 1985 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections:105-108.

Hawks, Catharine A. and Stephen L. Williams. 2005. Labeling Natural History Specimens. Conserve O Gram 11(6):1-4.

Jewett, Susan L. 1995. Laser Printer Labels: Potential Disaster While Specimens Are On Loan. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) Curation Newsletter No. 11:6-7.

Williams, Stephen L. and Catharine A. Hawks. 1986. Inks for Documentation in Vertebrate Collections. Curator 29(2):93-107.

Zala, Krista, N. Dean Pentcheff and Regina Wetzer. 2005. Laser-Printed Labels in Wet Collections: Will They Hold Up?. Collection Forum 19(1-2):49-56.

Dayton, Paul K. 2003. The Importance of the Natural Sciences to Conservation (An American Society of Naturalists Symposium Paper). The American Naturalist 162(1):1-13.

Howie, F.M.P. 1985. Conserving Natural History Collections: Some Present Problems and Strategies for the Future. Proceedings of the 1985 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections:1-6.

McAlpine, Donald F. 1985. Curators and Natural History Collections: Have We Become Islands in Science?. Proceedings of the 1985 Workshop on Care and Maintenance of Natural History Collections:7-14.

Pettitt, Charles. 1991. What Price Natural History Collections or ‘Why do we need all these bloody mice’?. Museum Journal 91(8):25-28.

Pettitt, Charles. 1997. The Cultural Impact of Natural Science Collections. In Nudds, J.R. and Pettitt, C.W. (Eds.) The Value and Valuation of Natural Science Collections: Proceedings of the International Conference, Manchester 1995:94-103.

Suarez, Andrew V. and Neil D. Tsutsui. 2004. The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society. BioScience 54(1):66-74.

Winker, Kevin. 2004. Natural History Museums in a Postbiodiversity Era. BioScience 54(5):455-459.

Nakrem, Hans Arne. 1996. Norwegian Natural History Museum Collection Computerization: A First Report. Collection Forum 12(2):55-59.

Chatigny, Mark E. 2000. The Extraction of DNA from Formalin-fixed, Ethanol Preserved Reptile and Amphibian Tissues. Herpetological Review 31(2):2000.

Schander, Christoffer and Kenneth M. Halanych. 2003. DNA, PCR and formalinized animal tissue- a short review and protocols. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 3:195-205.

Examples of online databases

* http://www.nbii.gov/datainfo/syscollect/by_type/naturalhistorymuseum.php

* http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/db/colldb.html

* http://www.sbcollections.org/

* http://tanaids.usm.edu/

Cato, Paisley S. 1990. Characteristics of a Collection of Fluid-Preserved Mammals and Implications for Collection Management. Collection Forum 6(2): 53-64.

Census of Marine Life: For collection and preservation of crustaceans, echinoderms and molluscs. http://clade.acnatsci.org/rosenberg/archiving/

Hendler, Gordon, John E. Miller, David L. Pawson and Porter M. Kier. 1995. Sea Stars, Sea Urchins and Allies: Echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.

Levi, Herbert W. 1966. The Care of Alcoholic Collections of Small Invertebrates. Systematic Zoology 15:183-388.

Myers, George S. 1956. Brief Directions for Preserving and Shipping Specimens of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles. Natural History Museum of Stanford University, California.

Rose, Carolyn L. 1991. The Conservation of Natural History Collections: Addresing Preservation Concerns and Maintaining the Integrity of Research Specimens. pp.69-89 in Cato, Paisley S. and Clyde Jones, eds., Natural History Museums: Directions for Growth. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock.

Rose, Carolyn L. 1995. A Preventive Conservation Approach to the Storage of Collections. pp. 1-20 in Rose, Carolyn L., Catharine A. Hawks and Hugh H. Genoways, eds., Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach Volume I. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.

Simmons, John E. 1991. Conservation Problems of Fluid-Preserved Collections. pp.69-89 in Cato, Paisley S. and Clyde Jones, eds., Natural History Museums: Directions for Growth. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock.

Simmons, John E. 1995. Storage in Fluid Preservatives. pp. 161-186 in Rose, Carolyn L., Catharine A. Hawks and Hugh H. Genoways, eds., Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach Volume I. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.

Simmons, John E. 1999. Storage Containers and Labels for Fluid Preserved Collections. Conserve O Gram 11(4):1-4.

Stansfield, Geoffrey. 1984. Conservation and Storage: biological collections. pp. 289-295 in Thompson, John M.A., Douglas A. Bassett, D. Gareth Davies, et al., Manual of Curatorship A Guide to Museum Practice. Butterworths, London.

Vogt, Kenneth D. 1991. Reconstituting Dehydrated Museum Specimens. Curator 34(2):125-131.