Sunday, 6 September 2009. The six Belgian legs in the PEET project gather at the Tervuren Museum to depart for Germany (again). We look forward to this particular trip, not because we’re particularly fond of German beer (we’re Belgains after all!), but because we’ll get to lay or hands and eyes on type specimens that have not been studied for over a hunderd years. Yes indeed, some of the long-thaught historical specimens described by nobody less than Emil Selenka await us!
We decided to bridge the nearly 500 km between Tervuren and Göttingen by car so that we would be able to carry quite a bit equipment with us: two dissecting microscopes, two portable computers, two digital camera’s, some 1000 pre-numbered eppendorf tubes, sharpened dissecting material, etc., but mother of ALL DISASTERS, no more space for our crates of Belgian beer!
Below a small pictorial impression of this trip.
Working hard and efficient thanks to our host M. Reich
In a paleontology lab one must wear appropriate protection.
A typical view of a label from the Selenka collection.
