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Tag: OPAL

The OPAL cabinets are complete!

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 5, 2010March 19, 2010

At long last I am very pleased to say that the OPAL cabinet project is finished! Yesterday I collected the final batch of drawers from…

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New unit trays

ChrisRPosted onJanuary 31, 2010February 5, 2010

Whilst at the NHM last week Max Barclay kindly sorted me out with some new unit trays for the OPAL-funded cabinets. I have spent a…

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The cabinets have arrived!!

ChrisRPosted onNovember 17, 2009January 31, 2010

I have just spent a really fun day with 2 friends of mine, Becca & John, driving up to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in…

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OPAL re-housing project starts …

ChrisRPosted onSeptember 23, 2009January 31, 2010

The funding hasn’t come through yet but I always planned to make a contribution myself so last Friday I bought the first 20 drawers from…

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OPAL funding

ChrisRPosted onSeptember 13, 2009November 18, 2009

Earlier this year The Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network announced that they had made grants available to UK natural history societies and recording schemes. OPAL…

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