[Nhcoll-l] Old Croone Day

[Heather Ouellette]

I inadvertently celebrated by spilling ethanol all over myself.
To fluid preservation!

Heather Ouellette
Research Collections Manager
FAU Harbor Branch
772-224-2206

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Old Croone Day, 04 June 2024

“When I die don’t cry for me,
Don’t bury me at all,
Just put my living, laughing, loving bones
In a jar of alcohol, hundred proof alcohol”

―Lightning Bar Blues as sung by Hoyt Axton (1971)

Once again, it is Old Croone Day, the occasion on which we join together in acknowledgement of an unquenchable spirit of curiosity and experimentation by hoisting a glass of our favorite beverage to toast the preservation of community and friendship, while basking in the pleasure of finding things out.

Old Croone Day is a celebration of the first written record of the preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol, which took place on 04 June in 1662. On that auspicious day, the esteemed physician, anatomist, and professor of rhetoric William Croone (1633-1684) showed fellow members of the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge specimens of “two embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had kept eight days, and were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically.”

In addition, to celebrate this year’s Old Croone Day I am pleased to announce that I am currently working on a new, revised edition of Fluid Preservation: A Comprehensive Reference, and this I will greatly appreciate any and all suggestions and comments on the first edition that will improve the second.

Here’s to you, Dr. William Croone!
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--John

John E. Simmons
Writer and Museum Consultant
Museologica
and
Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
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