The Wet Collection
A large quantity of specimens is held in jars or tubes of spirit, usually alcohol with various additives. This is known as the wet collection. The specimens are mostly marine animals, collected in the course of diving surveys around the Northern Ireland coast. They are the material record of the surveys and are fully labelled with locality, date of collection depth and other information. Such specimens are known as vouchers and are re-examined if the identification of a survey specimen needs to be checked or reinvestigated.
Image : Specimens of the brittlestar Ophiothrix fragilis preserved in ethanol. Click image to enlarge.
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