[Nhcoll-l] whale bones

[Gali Beiner]

This conference sounds very interestiing indeed - greasy bones are always such a problem!

This seems to be the link to the information:

http://www.museum.nantes.fr/pages/21_activitesscientifiques/TableRonde_squelettes_fevrier2012/interventions_fr_ang.html


Gali Beiner (ACR)
Conservator, Palaeontology Lab
National Natural History Collections
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram
Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Fax. 972-2-6584741
galib at savion.huji.ac.il<mailto:galib at savion.huji.ac.il>

Look into our National Natural History Collections <http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/default.asp?PageID=8> Website!

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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Ososky, John [OSOSKYJ at si.edu]
Sent: 04 June 2012 14:17
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] whale bones

There was a two day conference at the natural history museum in Nantes, France in February of this year that dealt primarily with the issue of cleaning grease (and dirt and grime) from cetacean skeletons. They recently posted all the abstracts online. Probably the most relevant technique for the purpose of cleaning the skeletons in Leiden was presented by the Norwegian team. They used a process of brushing in a solution of detergent and ammonia into the surface and immediately using a wetvac to pull it off. This seemed to work very well for them, especially on old greasy gimy cetacean exhibit specimens.

John Ososky
Smithsonian Institution
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