loan # UAM.2007.020.Ento corrected to UAM.2007.019.Ento there is a duplicate barcode with another ichn specimen - fix when loan is returned- UAM100009739 - fixed 10/25/2010. From: jftriana@uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: Ichneumonioidea - loan UAM.2007.020.Ento Date: September 5, 2007 4:32:42 AM AKDT To: ffdss@uaf.edu Derek, Yesterday arrived the last box, so finally everything is here (the 5 large boxes) and all is fine. We will be in touch about those samples. Cheers, Jose From: jftriana@uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: Ichneumonioidea - loan UAM.2007.020.Ento Date: August 27, 2007 10:30:34 AM AKDT To: ffdss@uaf.edu Derek, So far I have received 3 large boxes (2 with 3 and 1 with 4 Schmidt boxes, I already checked in detail). This makes a total of 10 S. boxes. According to your previous email I should have received 17 S. boxes (within 5 larger boxes). Is that correct? If so I should receive 2 more large boxes. We will be in touch about that and as soon as received them all will let you know. Cheers, Jose Derek, So far I have received 3 large boxes (2 with 3 and 1 with 4 Schmidt boxes, I already checked in detail). This makes a total of 10 S. boxes. According to your previous email I should have received 17 S. boxes (within 5 larger boxes). Is that correct? If so I should receive 2 more large boxes. We will be in touch about that and as soon as received them all will let you know. Cheers, Jose Dear Derek, I truly apologize for not reply you until now but was on vacation and have just returned. Regarding my address: even though I am a University of Guelph employee my daily work is in the Canadian National Collection, Ottawa (actually I live in Ottawa, not in Guelph). So, I would ask you to send the material to the following address and person: Dr. Henri Goulet, Canadian National Collection, K.W. Neatby Building Floor 3, Room 3135F, 960 Carling Ave, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada. That is the name of the researcher I work with, and he will pass the material to me -actually my desk is 2 meters away from his. I would like to add that, if Microgastrinae braconids are available, they are also welcome to be sent. Again: thank you very much for this opportunity. With best regards, Jose From: jftriana@uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: Ichneumonioidea - loan UAM.2007.020.Ento Date: July 21, 2008 2:25:08 PM AKDT To: ffdss@uaf.edu Dear Derek, This is a difficult email for me to write, but I hope you understand everything I have to explain here. Almost a year ago you sent me a lot of material from Alaska (over 1200 specimens, mostly Ichneumonidae) that I was planning to study at that time. Things have changed here for me and I am forced to update you with my present situation and perspectives to study further the samples. As soon as the samples arrived I started to sort the material to subfamilies in order to make some order before starting to sort beyond that level. As of today most of the specimens are sorted to subfamily and separated accordingly in the different boxes (the exception being Cryptinae, Banchinae and a few other things). The problem is that, almost immediately after your samples arrived, in October, my job duty changed. I am working now Braconidae, a different Family, and have no time allocated to do more ichneumonid Ids. I have been trying to advance your material, but after that the time just does not help me. Before coming to Canada I was a researcher working taxonomy of Ichneumonidae in my country, but here I have only got a contract position as a technician and cannot afford to spend more time with your material (especially because I have no way to justify to my supervisor your material, and I am doing that for free in my spare time). When I first wrote to you I was heavily involved with arctic ichneumonid researches and Microgastrine braconids (the last group is still my major research duty, but Ichneumonidae is not anymore. Unfortunately most of your material was ichneumonids and I cannot spend more time with that –there are less than 20 specimens of Microgastrinae which I already sorted to genus and/or species, but they are just a minority of the material. I had been waiting with the hope to find some time, but now I see that is impossible –unless I find a job elsewhere and have more independence. So, I have no choice but to return the material to you as it is now –at least is sorted to subfamilies and the Microgastrinae are completed to genus and/or species. But that is not much of an advance or help to you, of course. However, I have another major problem that I do not how to solve. Sending back the samples is going to cost me over 150 dollars –that is just an estimated I do not know for sure. I cannot afford that from my pocket with the meager salary I am earning now, and have no way to access to any research fund or whatever to do it. I am an employee from the University of Guelph working physically in the CNC in Ottawa, but because I am just a technician under contract do not have any funds other than my salary. I am open to discuss with you a way to return the material –which is in a perfect condition here in the CNC. Maybe you know some researcher from the CNC that know how to ship that in a cheap way? Maybe you are coming here at some point? Other idea? By this time I guess you may have a bad opinion of me. I sincerely hope you understand my position and my limits. I was intending to do the IDs for free and relatively soon for you, as a way to compare your data with the ones we are getting from Churchill (sub-arctic Manitoba). Now that my status changed I cannot commit myself for any further advance. I deeply regret the present situation; please believe me that I also feel bad about all of that. I will not waste more of your time, but hope we can find a way to send you back your material in the future. With best regards, Jose -- Jose Fernandez Triana, PhD Research Assistant, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario University of Guelp, Canada. This loan is probably closed - there are still specimens that have not been scanned back into UAM but all schmitt boxes were accounted for & returned from CNC by June 2010. Some specimens were probably skipped on re-scanning. 139 specimens remain MIA - a full sort & scan of all Hymenoptera specimens in UAM (pinned) was completed on 2/10/2011 and these 139 were not found. Missing schmitt box? lost in mail? These 139 will be considered lost and this loan closed as of 2/10/2011. 340 specimens of this and the 2nd F-Triana loan found & returned July 2011.