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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:115%">Old Croone Day, 04 June 2024<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">“When I die don’t cry for me,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.25in;line-height:105%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">―</span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black">Lightning Bar Blues</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:105%;color:black"> as sung by Hoyt Axton (1971)<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%">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. <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%">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.” <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%">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></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><img src="cid:ii_lx0ft6ef0" alt="image.png" width="455" height="142"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">--John</p>
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