[Nhcoll-l] Old Croone Day 2020

[Dirk Neumann]

This deserves a toast later today indeed!


Am 04.06.2020 um 17:29 schrieb John E Simmons:
>
> *Old Croone Day, 04 June 2020*
>
> Once again it is Old Croone Day, the international holiday on which we 
> celebrate the anniversary of the first recorded mention of the 
> preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol. It was on 04 June of 
> 1662 that Dr. William Croone (1633-1684) demonstrated before the Royal 
> Society of London “two embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had kept eight 
> days, and were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically.”
>
> A graduate of Emmanuel College at Cambridge, Croone (sometimes spelled 
> Croune) was a professor at Gresham College in London when he was 
> invited to join a select group of people interested in science 
> experiments, which became the Royal Society of London in 1662. Croone 
> was later an anatomy lecturer and Fellow of the College of Physicians. 
> Croone’s main interests were physics, physiology (particularly the 
> circulation of blood and muscle movement), and embryology—it was the 
> latter that led to his discovery of fluid preservation.
>
> When the Royal Society was forced to suspend its meetings due to the 
> Plague in 1665, Croone traveled to Montpellier to meet the Danish 
> anatomist, Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen, 1638-1686). The following 
> year, after dissecting a giant shark, Steno became the first scientist 
> to prove that “tongue stones” were really fossilized shark teeth.
>
> In this same spirit of curiosity, inquiry, and diversion during a 
> plague, you are invited to hoist a glass of your favorite beverage on 
> 04 June and toast the preservation of good friendships as we bask in 
> the pleasure of finding things out.
>
> Here’s to you, Dr. William Croone!
>
>
> [PDF illustrated mini-poster of Old Croone Day announcement attached]
>
> John E. Simmons
> Writer and Museum Consultant
> Museologica
> /and/
> Associate Curator of Collections
> Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
> Penn State University
> /and/
> Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia
> Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
>
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