[Nhcoll-l] History of Mercuric chloride use in collections

[Dirk Neumann]

Dear Peter,

my colleague Joachim Händel has been looking into this (recipes, 
mixtures, etc.) for his book Makroskopische Präparationstechnik; he 
might know producers (but I suspect that mercury salts have been mixed 
into fixatives by preparators themselves)

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Would be interested to learn more about your work on sublimate in museum 
collections - would appreciate if you could circulate a link to the 
publication once your results are available.

All the best
Dirk


Am 19.04.2018 um 07:28 schrieb Peter H Wimberger:
> Hello all,
> We have been doing some work on mercury in museum specimens and are 
> interested in finding more reports/papers that document the use of 
> mercuric chloride or corrosive sublimate in museum collections.  In 
> addition we would be interested in learning the results of mercury 
> tests done on specimens, if folks are willing to share those.
> Does anyone know who produced the mercury products that were used in 
> collections in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries?
> Thanks very much,
> Peter
>
> /Peter Wimberger/
>
> /Director, Slater Museum of Natural History/
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> /Albertson Professor, Biology and Environmental Studies/
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> /University of Puget Sound/
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