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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I inadvertently celebrated by spilling ethanol all over myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To fluid preservation!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>John E Simmons<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NHCOLL-new <nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Old Croone Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Old Croone Day, 04 June 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Don’t bury me at all,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Just put my living, laughing, loving bones</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">―<i>Lightning Bar Blues</i> as sung by Hoyt Axton (1971)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Once again, it is Old Croone Day, the occasion on which we join together in acknowledgement of an unquenchable spirit of curiosity and experimentation by
hoisting a glass of our favorite beverage to toast the preservation of community and friendship, while basking in the pleasure of finding things out.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Old Croone Day is a celebration of the first written record of the preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol, which took place on 04 June in 1662.
On that auspicious day, the esteemed physician, anatomist, and professor of rhetoric William Croone (1633-1684) showed fellow members of the
<i>Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge</i> specimens of “two embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had kept eight days, and were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">In addition, to celebrate this year’s Old Croone Day I am pleased to announce that I am currently working on a new, revised edition of
<i>Fluid Preservation: A Comprehensive Reference</i>, and this I will greatly appreciate any and all suggestions and comments on the first edition that will improve the second.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Here’s to you, Dr. William Croone!</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">--John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia<br>
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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