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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Old Croone Day, 04 June 2023<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">The problem of fluid preservation,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">Was far more than just botheration.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">But alcohol and a jar,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">Proved best things by far,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">And thus, Old Croone won our admiration.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The international
holiday known as Old Croone Day celebrates the first record of the preservation
of scientific specimens in alcohol on 04 June of 1662, on which day Dr. William
Croone (1633-1684) demonstrated that he had “two embryos of puppy-dogs, which
he had kept eight days, and were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed
hermetically.” The members of the <i>Royal Society of London for Improving
Natural Knowledge</i>, the oldest scientific society in the world, were duly
impressed.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Croone (sometimes
spelled Croune) was a physician, anatomist, a professor of Rhetoric at Gresham
College, and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">interested
in physics, physiology, and embryology. Despite his diverse accomplishments,
however, he is remembered by us today for his experiments with spirits of wine
(ethyl alcohol) and the two specimens he first preserved.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">And so, let us join
together today to celebrate the unquenchable spirit of curiosity and experimentation
by hoisting a glass of your favorite beverage and toast the preservation of community
and friendship while basking in the pleasure of finding things out. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Here’s to you, Dr. William
Croone!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p><img src="cid:ii_lihit56v0" alt="image.png" width="455" height="142"><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></p>
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