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  • Saving our natural heritage, one stopper at a time

    Dec 7, 2018 9:00 am by Tommy McElrath, Illinois Natural History SurveyCampus Life
    1) Melting rubber stoppers threaten millions of insect and arthropod specimens in the Illinois Natural History Survey collection

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    • 1) Melting rubber stoppers threaten millions of insect and arthropod specimens in the Illinois Natural History Survey collection

    Millimeter by millimeter, rubber stoppers are melting into or around the glass vials that store millions of priceless specimens