weighty problem: data at hand

[John Nelson]

SAT 28 Aug 955a

Friends:

        Thanks to the several of you who have responded with data, in answering
my query on the weight of a full herbarium case. Here's what the figures
seem to be:

        empty case, ca. 84" tall....245-275 lbs.
        "full" case.................415-500 lbs.

        "Full" means containing a reasonable amount of specimens, i.e, not so
tightly packed in that they are hard to get out.

        Later JOHN NELSON

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John B. Nelson
A. C. Moore Herbarium
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208

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