[NHCOLL-L:5465] Re: Celebrate 04 June
Ann M Molineux
annm at austin.utexas.edu
Fri Jun 3 17:15:23 EDT 2011
I agree and moreover suggest it be integral to the SPNHC meeting [so we do not miss it]. Perhaps a plenary session "Old Crounes" with suggested theme "Storage and preservation issues of fine malts in the Celtic fringe and possible relevance to fluid collections" or some such? It should be a democamp style event , very much 'hands-on'!
Ann
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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:5463] Re: Celebrate 04 June
I'm there in a heartbeat - maybe we can even talk standards and best practices while we are at it :). I vote that none of the spirits can contain any specimen of any nature unless it is a worm!!!
Andy
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Subject: [NHCOLL-L:5461] Re: Celebrate 04 June
Steve, as usual you are a genius. I propose we inaugurate the Willliam Croone Spirit Assessment Society (to be known informally as the Old Crounes) which will meet quasi-annually around the time of the SPNHC meeting. Anyone who wants to join can show up with a bottle of their favorite spirits to share with their fellow Old Crounes.
Anyone interested?
--John
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Steve Halford <halford at sfu.ca<mailto:halford at sfu.ca>> wrote:
Should we plan something for next year, the trisemicentennial?
Steve.
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, John E Simmons <simmons.johne at gmail.com<mailto:simmons.johne at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Tomorrow is a significant, but little known anniversary of an important
> event in the history of natural history collections. On the 4th of June in
> the year 1662, William Croone appeared before the Royal Society of London
> and "...produced two embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had kept eight days, and
> were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically..." This is the
> first recorded mention of modern fluid preservation of a scientific
> specimen.
>
>
>
> The Transactions of the Royal Society report that almost immediately Robert
> Boyle leaped up and "... promised to make like experiment in rabbets" and
> indeed, Boyle is often mistakenly credited with inventing preservation in
> alcohol. The next mention of fluid preservation was when another member
> brought to the Royal Society an "abortive human foetus, kept in spirit well
> rectified" (meaning double distilled). In 1664 Boyle donated to the society
> specimens of a linnet and a snake he had preserved in alcohol four months
> previous.
>
>
>
> Croone (sometimes spelled Croune) was born in London on 15 September 1633
> and received a degree from Emmanuel College (Cambridge) in 1650. In 1659
> Croone was appointed Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in London,
> where he fell in with a small group of men interested in science experiments
> who founded the Royal Society of London in 1662. Croone was named "Doctor
> of Physic" by royal mandate at Cambridge in 1662 and elected a Fellow in the
> College of Physicians on 29 June 1675. When Croone died in 1684 his will
> established two lectureships, one for the Royal College of Physicians, the
> other for the Royal Society. The income for the Royal Society lectureship
> came from one-fifth of the rent paid by the King's Head Tavern on Old Fish
> Street, London, at the corner of Lambeth Hill.
>
>
>
> It was Croone's interest in embryology (one of many areas of science to
> which he contributed) that led him to discover fluid preservation. I invite
> all SPNHC members to raise a glass in celebration of this momentous
> anniversary tomorrow, 04 June, preferably by sharing a fine single malt
> whiskey with friends and reflecting on how often significant developments in
> our field have come about when we are really trying to solve some other
> problem.
>
>
>
> References for the True Nerds Among Us
>
> Birch, T. 1756-1757. The History of the Royal Society of London for
> Improving of Natural Knowledge from its First Rise. Volume I. A. Millar,
> London
>
> Cole, F.J. 1944. A History of Comparative Anatomy from Aristotle to the
> Eighteenth Century. MacMillan and Company, Ltd., London, viii + 524 pages.
>
> Payne, L.M., L.G. Wilson, and H. Hartley. 1960. Notes and Records of the
> Royal Society of London 15:211-219.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Croone
>
> http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/1/211.full.pdf
>
>
>
> -- John
>
> John E. Simmons
> Museologica
> 128 E. Burnside Street
> Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823-2010
> simmons.johne at gmail.com<mailto:simmons.johne at gmail.com>
> 303-681-5708<tel:303-681-5708>
> www.museologica.com<http://www.museologica.com>
> and
> Adjunct Curator of Collections
> Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
> Penn State University
> University Park, Pennsylvania
> and
> Lecturer in Art
> Juniata College
> Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
>
>
--
John E. Simmons
Museologica
128 E. Burnside Street
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania 16823-2010
simmons.johne at gmail.com<mailto:simmons.johne at gmail.com>
303-681-5708
www.museologica.com<http://www.museologica.com>
and
Adjunct Curator of Collections
Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
and
Lecturer in Art
Juniata College
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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