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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 04.06.2020 um 17:29 schrieb John E
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Croone Day, 04 June 2020<span></span></span></b></p>
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Once
again it is Old Croone Day, the international holiday on
which we celebrate the
anniversary of the first recorded mention of the
preservation of scientific
specimens in alcohol. It was on 04 June of 1662 that Dr.
William Croone (1633-1684)
demonstrated before the Royal Society of London “two
embryos of puppy-dogs,
which he had kept eight days, and were put in spirit in a
glass-vial sealed
hermetically.” <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A
graduate of Emmanuel College at Cambridge, Croone
(sometimes spelled Croune) was
a professor at Gresham College in London when he was
invited to join a select group
of people interested in science experiments, which became
the Royal Society of
London in 1662. Croone was later </span><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">an
anatomy lecturer and </span><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fellow
of the College of Physicians.
Croone’s main interests were physics, physiology
(particularly the circulation
of blood and muscle movement), and embryology—it was the
latter that led to his
discovery of fluid preservation. <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">When
the Royal Society was forced to suspend its meetings due
to the Plague in 1665,
Croone traveled to Montpellier to meet the Danish
anatomist, Nicolas Steno
(Niels Steensen, 1638-1686). The following year, after
dissecting a giant
shark, Steno became the first scientist to prove that
“tongue stones” were
really fossilized shark teeth. <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In
this same spirit of curiosity, inquiry, and diversion
during a plague, you are invited
to hoist a glass of your favorite beverage on 04 June and
toast the
preservation of good friendships as we bask in the
pleasure of finding things
out. <span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Here’s
to you, Dr. William Croone!<span></span></span></p>
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style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Museologica<br>
<i>and</i><br>
Associate Curator
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Earth and Mineral
Science Museum
& Art Gallery<br>
Penn State
University<br>
<i>and</i><br>
Investigador
Asociado,
Departamento de
Ornitologia<br>
Museo de Historia
Natural,
Universidad
Nacional Mayor de
San Marcos, Lima</span></font><br>
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