Loan conditions for bird skins, skeletons and specimens preserved in alcohol

The following restrictions apply:

• The loanee must be employed as a scientist at a research institution at a museum or university. A student may only be granted loans through his or her supervisor or a curator at a museum. Researchers not included within these categories have to arrange with a nearby museum to study the material there.
• Loans are granted for 3, 6 or 12 months. For all kinds of dissection, sampling or other destructive treatment of the material, a prior permission from us is required.
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History has the full right to disapprove of a loan if there are any uncertainties around the purpose of the loan or the possibilities to keep the specimens under proper conditions during the time of the loan.
• Loans of type material are very seldom approved.
• Loans must be returned under the same conditions (mode of transport, insurance, etc.) as they were sent, if nothing else has been agreed upon.
• The loanee may not keep the material in any other location than agreed upon in the loan request. A loan can not be transformed from one person to another.
• A written loan request is to be sent to Collection manager Ulf Johansson.