[Nhcoll-l] Serventy's fluid reference

[Simon Moore]

I am enquiring to see if anyone (particularly from W. Australia) who might have heard of an ornithologist named Dominic L. Serventy and who devised a fluid preservative, containing formaldehyde, glycerine, alcohol and water (not unlike Kew mixture for plants) but his recipe was for preserving colour in feathers.  
I’m searching for a reference where he published about this fluid, probably between c. 1920 and 1960?

With all good wishes, Simon 

Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR
Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian.

www.natural-history-conservation.com