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<div>This conference sounds very interestiing indeed - greasy bones are always such a problem!
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<div><font face="tahoma">This seems to be the link to the information: </font></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.museum.nantes.fr/pages/21_activitesscientifiques/TableRonde_squelettes_fevrier2012/interventions_fr_ang.html">http://www.museum.nantes.fr/pages/21_activitesscientifiques/TableRonde_squelettes_fevrier2012/interventions_fr_ang.html</a></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Gali Beiner (ACR)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" size="2" face="tahoma">Conservator, Palaeontology Lab</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080">National Natural History Collections</font></font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080">The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram<br>
Jerusalem 91904, Israel<br>
Fax. 972-2-6584741<br>
</font><u><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a title="blocked::mailto:rivka@vms.huji.ac.il" href="mailto:galib@savion.huji.ac.il">galib@savion.huji.ac.il</a></span></font></u></font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><u><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></u></font></font> </div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><u><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: blue; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></u></font></font><font size="2" face="tahoma">Look into our
<a href="http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/default.asp?PageID=8">National Natural History Collections
</a>Website!</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu [nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Ososky, John [OSOSKYJ@si.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 June 2012 14:17<br>
<b>To:</b> 'nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] whale bones<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There was a two day conference at the natural history museum in Nantes, France in February of this year that dealt primarily with the issue of cleaning grease (and dirt and grime) from cetacean skeletons. They recently posted all the abstracts
online. Probably the most relevant technique for the purpose of cleaning the skeletons in Leiden was presented by the Norwegian team. They used a process of brushing in a solution of detergent and ammonia into the surface and immediately using a wetvac to
pull it off. This seemed to work very well for them, especially on old greasy gimy cetacean exhibit specimens.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John Ososky</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Smithsonian Institution</p>
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