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I have to admit that when I first saw the sooty specimens pictured in the NY Times Article they reminded me of mounted specimens I’d seen many times before, in instances where the birds had been mounted and around 1900 and in at least some cases exhibited in
museums that would have had coal heat. However, I don’t recall noticing study skins coming out of storage that were this sooty.
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I mentioned in my post regarding the historic taxidermy case last week that some of the specimens inside appear sooty. One person replied that it may be caused by mercuric chloride (applied as a preservative during preparation). A couple other people suggested
it may be the result of coal dust in the air at their storage location(s) due to coal heating, rather than soot collected from its habitat in life. The study linked below is suggesting the latter. I’m curious how they determined the difference between these
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NYT article:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nytimes.com_2017_10_10_science_birds-2Dair-2Dpollution.html&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=dfzHto3VHN4FuEv-uwP7f7mbsr1H_yh2ojReafCxjq8&s=ZBPD0yYy34rMSAZuRAtBN5-sqzH9mhdhhOD5PB0vB-Y&e=" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/science/birds-air-pollution.html</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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PNAS article (full text behind a paywall):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.pnas.org_content_early_2017_10_04_1710239114&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=dfzHto3VHN4FuEv-uwP7f7mbsr1H_yh2ojReafCxjq8&s=scmWJIAHzlAxN4eMmrYbA1Pw2xlL4K8QeeTND5U-IqU&e=" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/04/1710239114</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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In any case it’s wonderful to see natural history collections making the mainstream news!<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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