[Nhcoll-l] Antw: Old Croone Day

[Hans-Joachim Händel]

Dear John, 
Dear friends and colleagues,
I too wishes you all a happy Old Croone Day..

May your work bring you joy, success and inspiration – and the right
balance of tradition and innovation.

Cheers to you and to William Croone!
Joachim

--  
Joachim Haendel
 
Center of Natural Science Collections
of the Martin Luther University (ZNS)
- Zoological Collection -

Domplatz 4
D-06099 Halle (Saale)
Germany

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




>>> John E Simmons <simmons.johne at gmail.com> schrieb am 04.06.2026 um
04:58:
Old Croone Day, 04 June 
 
Once again it is Old Croone Day, an international holiday that
celebrates the anniversary of a significant event in the history of
natural history collections— the first recorded mention of the
preservation of scientific specimens in alcohol. It was on 04 June 1662
that Dr. William Croone showed “two embryos of puppy-dogs, which he had
kept eight days, and were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed
hermetically” before the Royal Society of London.
 
Croone (1633-1684) graduated from from Emmanuel College (Cambridge) in
1650 and was appointed Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College in
London in 1659. While there he joined a group interested in science
experiments and helped launch the Royal Society of London in 1662.
Croone was later appointed an anatomy lecturer by the Barber-Surgeons'
Company, and elected a Fellow in the College of Physicians in 1675. 
 
Croone conducted research on physiology, the circulation of blood,
respiration, the density of air, and the freezing of water, but it was
his interest in embryology that led him to accidentally discover fluid
preservation. In this same spirit of scientific curiosity and inquiry,
you are invited to celebrate 04 June every year with a glass of your
favorite beverage, make a toast to preserve good friendships, reflect on
how many important developments in science have come about when someone
was trying to solve some other problem. 
 
Cheers, Dr. William Croone!
 

John E. Simmons
US Fulbright Senior Scholar
Writer and Museum Consultant, Museologica
and
Research Associate, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery,
Penn State University
and
Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitología, Museo de Historia
Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
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