Freeze-drying herbarium specimens

We are about to treat some water damaged herbarium specimens. The
specimens are mounted in books and the assemblage has become wet.
Has anyone freeze-dried any similar objects? and if so what problems
were encountered? For instance, were the specimens friable after
treatment? were the pages easy to separate after treatment, etc.?


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                  Conservation DistList Instance 15:70
                  Distributed: Tuesday, April 16, 2002
                       Message Id: cdl-15-70-015
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