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Cambridge, MA 02138
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RENOVATIONS AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS
During your visit, you will note that major alterations have been undertaken during the last three years.
WIRELESS NETWORK
The whole department is now on a wireless network system, which allows laptops to be employed in curatorial and research activities in any area of the department.
Hide Room (554)
Renovations have been completed to the Hide Room this past May, 2004. These include 51 new steel cases for hide storage, a temperature control system, a large work counter with voice and data lines, a sink with cabinets, and a refinished floor and painted walls.
Rodent Room (511)
The Rodent Room renovations have just been completed this past May, 2004. With the demolition of the built-in wooden skin cases, we have installed level floor platforms for our existing steel cases, added 18 new steel cases, and installed a new work counter. The entire rodent skin collection is now housed in steel cases. We have just started to combine the skins and skeletons in the new cases. Thus, for easier access, all rodent material may be found in this one room.
Artiodactyl Collection
The Bovid Room (513) was renovated this past spring (2004) with a new work counter, freshly painted walls, and a refinished wood floor. The original Agassiz cases have been painted and equipped with new hardware.
Insectivore and Primate Collection (Room 556)
This past spring (2004), the Insectivore Collection was moved into its own room within the Primate Room. Six new steel cases allow the primate hides to be combined with the study skins, and to provide for expansion capacity.
Concord Field Station Renovations (CFS)
The preparation lab, fluid collection, and cetacean collection rooms at the CFS have had many renovations in the past two years. These include new paint and sealer on the lab walls and floor, new lighting, instantaneous water heaters, expansion and renovation of a new room for the cetacean collection, and dollies to support the large whale skulls. Soon we will have a computer and dot matrix printer in our Fluid Collection Room, which will allow us to enter the alcohol collection into the database and to print new labels for each specimen jar.