. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CARE OF COLLECTIONS 45 tions have been solved. The bird skin storage cases, formerly crowded into three tiers and arranged systematically in horizontal strata, are now in one and two tier rows, the tops of the single tier rows serving as work surfaces. The systematic order of the cases now allows for expansion with little or no disruption of the arrangement of the col- lection, and ceiling height in the storage area will permit eventual expansion of the collection into a third tier of cases. The collection of bird a
. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. CARE OF COLLECTIONS 45 tions have been solved. The bird skin storage cases, formerly crowded into three tiers and arranged systematically in horizontal strata, are now in one and two tier rows, the tops of the single tier rows serving as work surfaces. The systematic order of the cases now allows for expansion with little or no disruption of the arrangement of the col- lection, and ceiling height in the storage area will permit eventual expansion of the collection into a third tier of cases. The collection of bird anatomical specimens in alcohol has been moved from the storage area in the division of reptiles and amphibians to a spacious new alcoholic storage room in the division of birds. During the year, 1,758 specimens of reptiles and amphibians were identified, cataloged, and shelved. Progress has continued with the inventory of snakes, and new metal labels are being used to replace cor- roded labels and parchment labels. The use of ground-glass-stoppered jars with petrolatum seals almost completely negates the problem of evaporation of the alcoholic collections. Portions of the collections of fishes formerly housed at the Zoologi- cal Park and two large storage tanks have been moved to the Smith- sonian Oceanographic Sorting Center because space for them is not. Sfudy skins laid ouf for inspection in new east wing storage area of division of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution
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