[Nhcoll-l] FW: Old Croone Day 2020

[Steve Halford]

There's no Croone like an old Croone!

Chimo!
Steve.
Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)
Museum Technician (Retired)
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University



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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 8:29 AM Steve Halford <halford at sfu.ca> wrote:

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> *From:* Nhcoll-lOn Behalf OfJohn E Simmons
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2020 8:29:12 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US &
> Canada)
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Old Croone Day 2020
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> *Old Croone Day, 04 June 2020*
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>
> 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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