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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 4, 2020, at 9:29 AM, John E Simmons <<a href="mailto:simmons.johne@gmail.com" class="">simmons.johne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">Old Croone Day, 04 June 2020<span class=""></span></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">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 class=""></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">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" class="">an
anatomy lecturer and </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">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 class=""></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">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 class=""></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">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 class=""></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class=""><span class=""> </span></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" class="">Here’s
to you, Dr. William Croone!<span class=""></span></span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[PDF illustrated mini-poster of Old Croone Day announcement attached]<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">John E. Simmons<br class="">Writer and Museum Consultant</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">Museologica<br class=""><i class="">and</i><br class="">Associate Curator of Collections<br class="">Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery<br class="">Penn State University<br class=""><i class="">and</i><br class="">Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia<br class="">Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima</span></font><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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