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Earthquake Damage: Bat Collection

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August 25, 2011

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Museum specialist Charley Potter sorting fluid preserved specimens of bats from research collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History from shattered glass jars toppled during the Aug. 23, 2011 Virginia earthquake.


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