[Nhcoll-l] Antw: Old Croone Day 2021

[Joachim Händel]

Thank you John!
Cheers to Ol'Croone, to our collections and to you - dear colleagues
...with a glass of an excellent rum from Nicaragua.

To your health and plessure
Joachim







--  
Joachim Haendel
                                                        
Center of Natural SciencesCollections
of the Martin-Luther-University
- Entomological Collection -

Domplatz 4
D-06099 Halle (Saale)
Germany

Phone:  +49 345 - 55 26 447
Fax:  +49 345 - 55 27 248
Email: joachim.haendel at zns.uni-halle.de



>>> John E Simmons <simmons.johne at gmail.com> 04.06.21 17.49 Uhr >>>
 Old Croone Day, 04 June 2021
 

 There was once a man, William Croone,
 Whose specimens deteriorated too soon.
 But using spirits of wine,
 He found they did fine,
 Which we celebrate each 4th of June.
 

 Old Croone Day is an international holiday to celebrate the first
recorded mention of the preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol,
which took place on 04 June of 1662. On that momentous occasion, Dr.
William Croone (1633-1684) showed his fellow members of 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.”
Croone was a founding member and secretary of the Royal Society of
London for Improving Natural Knowledge, the oldest scientific society in
the world. Ironically, his name was misspelled as Croune in the meeting
records (see below).
 

 Croone, a graduate of Cambridge University (Emmanuel College),
variously served as a professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, a
physician, and an anatomy lecturer while pursing diverse interests in
physics, physiology, and embryology. It was Croone’s interest in
entomology that led him to discover the possibilities of fluid
preservation in spirits of wine (ethyl alcohol).
 

 Let us join together to celebrate the spirit of curiosity and
scientific inquiry with a glass of your favorite beverage and a toast
the preservation of good friendships while basking in the pleasure of
finding things out. 
 

 Here’s to you, Dr. William Croone!






--John



 
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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