[Nhcoll-l] Arsenic testing

[m.kieron at musnathist.com]

We had a borax problem with several thousand birds in our collection. 
Back in the late 1960s the staff treated all the medium to large mounts 
with borax and there are still large accumulations of borax on the bases 
of the birds we have yet to clean. The protocol for treating the birds 
was too technical to have been conceived by the staff at the time so 
they must have gotten it from somewhere else. I'm surprised more museums 
do not have this problem.

-Mike K.

Michael W. Kieron
Curator
Museum of Natural History & Planetarium
Roger Williams Park
1000 Elmwood Avenue,
Providence, RI 02907
(401) 785-9457 x246
(401) 461-5146 (fax)
www.providenceri.com/museum