I don't figure out the question but , if you want to strip a skull fast  and
I did read in your message that you had a dock(I figure it's over water
{unless you live on lake bakal[lake bakal in the former USSR has shrunk by
2/3rds in 10 years]}) anyway you can tie a line to the skull and jaw and
drop it off the dock to the bottom , if it's fresh water the mudbugs  will
clean it up , salt water the blue crabs . should take only a week or so for
a caribou head . have fun .....ferreter
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Nixon <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: best packing material


>We have a pretty extensive skull collection and had some friends we met in
>Sanibel send us a whole  (not reduced to a skull yet) meat on caribou head
>from Canada which was frozen when it left Canada and arrived in colorado
>thawed and reeking to the point that our post-lady threw up bringing it to
>the house....much to her dismay, we were out of town and it sat on the dock
>over the weekend getting stinkier and stinkier.  It had all sorts of
>stickers on it from the Canadian government but came unsxathed.  Speaking
of
>nothing we also used to keep bees and have had shipments of live bees make
>it great by mail and a whole lion's head as well.....but that is another
>story!!!!   For shells I like roled up dirty socks and dirty
>underwear..sounds like a personal problem.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew K. Rindsberg <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 3:07 PM
>Subject: Re: best packing material
>
>
>>I got a good laugh from Paul Egerton's "worst packing materials." The
>>Canadian Post Office's policy of delivering anything with a stamp reminds
>>me of a song from my youth, which went in part, more or less:
>>
>>I'm going to wrap myself in paper,
>>I'm going to seal myself with glue,
>>Stick some bubble gum in my head,
>>I'm going to mail myself to you.
>>
>>In the United Kingdom, the Royal Mail delivers the post, but in America,
>>the U.S. Postal Service delivers the mail.
>>
>>As a graduate student, a friend of mine ("Steve") was asked to wrap a type
>>specimen for return to a museum. Steve wrapped it in layer after layer of
>>shock-absorbing material, to the point where it might have withstood a
bomb
>>blast. When his professor (Don Hattin) asked him if it was wrapped well
>>enough, Steve said nothing, just smiled and threw it into the wall. The
>>specimen was unharmed, not so the professor's nerves.
>>
>>The esteemed malacologist Myra Keen did something very similar to her
>>students, as related in a previous installment of Conch-L, but it's a long
>>story and you can probably find it in the Archives by searching for
>>"+Conch-L +Keen" on Alta Vista.
>>
>>Okay, guys, back to work.
>>
>>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>>Geological Survey of Alabama
>