[Nhcoll-l] Call for authors

[Simon Moore]

Call for authors.  I have been asked by Routledge Publishers to be the Editor for a book on the Conservation of Natural History Specimens, so I am seeking specialists to author chapters on the subjects listed below.  This also applies if you’re writing a PhD thesis or dissertation on some aspect of this subject, so please let me know. I am aiming to get the book more-or-less completed by the latter part of 2024.   Please contact Simon Moore on: couteaufin at btinternet.com for further details.  Thanks.

 Historical overview.

 Preventive conservation - applicable to all of the categories below. 
General management of such collections (including pest control / IPM and storage).

Main categories would be:
Zoology – Taxidermy. Pinned and papered Insects.
Fluid-preserved specimens (including containers, labels etc)
Osteology.
Botany and Fungi - Herbarium technology and fluid-preserved specimens, management. Geology – Palaeontology.
Petrology (including astral bodies).
Mineralogy.
Microscope slides: applying to all of the above.

Condition reporting for all of the above.

Useful suppliers list for tools, other equipment and consumables.

Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR
Conservator of Natural Sciences.