Dear Paul

Many thanks indeed for your rapid reply. I think we are at a stage before being formally refereed as the volunteer who has written a draft has a Zoology degree from quite a few years ago and has no experience of writing a formal paper.  I will 'tart it up' a bit and then, if I may, send it to you for advice as I am sure we will need some! While I have written papers for journals like Journal of Zoology, my experience of slides is very limited.

with best wishes

Jill

Dr Gillian Sales
Curator, Museum of Life Sciences at the Gordon Museum
King's College London

Postal Address:
Dr G Sales
Department of Anatomy
King's College London
Guy's Campus
London SE1 1UL
________________________________________
From: The Natural Science Collections Association discussion list [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Paul Brown [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 March 2015 13:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Journal of Natural Science Collections Volume 1

Dear Jill,

I have worked in the field of microscope slide conservation, curation and collections management and would be willing to referee such a paper mentioned below, as this would be suitable for our journal!

I have a few papers available on the NatSCA website on microscope slides at http://www.natsca.org/journal-articles/154, http://www.natsca.org/article/316  and at http://www.natsca.org/article/321

Best wishes,

Paul A Brown
Senior Curator: Hemiptera (Sternorrhyncha), Thysanoptera, Phthiraptera, Psocoptera & Collembola.
Insect Division,
Department of Life Sciences,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
LONDON SW7 5BD
UK
[log in to unmask]


-----Original Message-----
From: The Natural Science Collections Association discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sales, Gillian
Sent: 23 March 2015 12:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Journal of Natural Science Collections Volume 1

Dear Jan

The Museum of Life Sciences at King's College London is a relatively new museum - open  to staff and students and for some exhibitions and open days for only 5 years and not yet to the public as we are still getting straight and getting the specimens catalogued and displayed.  Most of the specimens were acquired for teaching in our various constituent colleges - probably for the best part of 150+ years.  One of our volunteers has done some stirling work cataloguing, cleaning, sorting, storing and researching our microscope slide collection and has found some interesting specimens.  We were wondering about the possibility of writing up her work and experience as a volunteer for the Natsca journal.  It would  show the processes we went through in getting the slides organised and give information on some of our more intersting specimens. It seems you have some articles verging on this.  We have some references mainly  to in-house material but few to more widespread processes and publicatons.  Is this the sort of thing you might be interested in?  If so  is it possible to send a draft for someone to advise on before we formally submit?  I know the folk at the Grant Museum quite well and use them a lot for advice so any other sources gratefully received before I bother them yet again.

best wishes

Jill

Dr Gillian Sales
Curator, Museum of Life Sciences at the Gordon Museum King's College London

Postal Address:
Dr G Sales
Department of Anatomy
King's College London
Guy's Campus
London SE1 1UL
________________________________________
From: The Natural Science Collections Association discussion list [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Freedman, Jan [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 March 2015 12:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Journal of Natural Science Collections Volume 1

Hi All,

All the articles from Volume 1 of the Journal of Natural Science Collections are now available online, free to download.

http://www.natsca.org/journal-articles/14

Please do get in touch if you want to submit an article for the Journal!

Enjoy!

Jan

Jan Freedman
Curator of Natural History
Economic Development
Plymouth City Council
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
Drake Circus
Plymouth
PL4 8AJ

T +441752304765
E [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
www.plymouth.gov.uk<http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/>

________________________________
IMPORTANT: This e-mail (including any attachments to it) is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged, confidential or sensitive information. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy or distribute it to any other person or take any action in reliance. If you have received it in error, please notify your system manager and the sender as soon as possible and then delete it from your system.