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Messieurs Gabriel, Longhorn, Gallon etc request that you lovely people bring any recently dead spiders, or old/useless males to us at the BTS exhibition this sunday, where we shall have a lovely big jar of preservative ethanol to store them.
As many of you know, Ray Gabriel in particular has been building up a big collection of preserved spiders in the oxford museum of natural history. Donated spiders will go there. This collection means that your sadly passed spiders go onto a new and useful future as taxonomy specimens in this ever-growing museum collection, and together provide useful research material for further study.
Anyone with donations, then Ray Gabriel should have a stand at the show, or i will be circling somewhere, just ask anyone official looking where/who we are.
I was tempted to put write our names as Burke and Hare, but just couldnt ...
Messieurs Gabriel, Longhorn, Gallon etc request that you lovely people bring any recently dead spiders, or old/useless males to us at the BTS exhibition this sunday, where we shall have a lovely big jar of preservative ethanol to store them.
As many of you know, Ray Gabriel in particular has been building up a big collection of preserved spiders in the oxford museum of natural history. Donated spiders will go there. This collection means that your sadly passed spiders go onto a new and useful future as taxonomy specimens in this ever-growing museum collection, and together provide useful research material for further study.
Anyone with donations, then Ray Gabriel should have a stand at the show, or i will be circling somewhere, just ask anyone official looking where/who we are.
I was tempted to put write our names as Burke and Hare, but just couldnt ...
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