Collection Forum is an annual, refereed journal covering all aspects of natural history collections care.
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Volume 1, Number 1 October 1985
Bulletin of the Society for Scientific Collections
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from pro tem Chairperson….1
DanFaber, National Museum of Natural Sciences
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Organizing Committee
Shirley Albright, New Jersey State Museum
Others
Richard Laub, Buffalo Museum of Science
Cesar Romero-Sierra, Queen’s University
Hugh Smith, Provincial Museum of Alberta
Wynn Watson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Steve Williams, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Margaret Ballantyne, Provincial Museum of Alberta
Arthur R. Clark, Buffalo Museum of Science
Jean-Pierre R. LeBianc, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
Jerry Fitzgerald and Robert Wailer, National Museum of Natural Sciences
Hugh H. Genoways, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Steve Halfcrd, Simon Fraser University
Beverly Horn, University of Manitoba
Don McAlpine, The New Brunswick Museum
Suzanne McLaren, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Keith Roney and David Baron, Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History
Janet Waddington, Royal Ontario Museum
Elizabeth Walsh, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Rob Waller, Vice President and Jerry Fitzgerald, Executive Councillor, IIC-CG
Volume 2, Number 1 Spring 1986
OPINION
What is our Science? Daniel J. Farber
Teaching by Touching Mary Parsons
ARTICLES
The Redpath Museum
By D. Alison, I. Birker, S. Gabe, J. Kaylor, & B. Larson
The Northern Michigan University Insect Collection
By Gordon D. Gill
Collecting Diatoms in Inlets off Vancouver Island
By Richard L. Colby
Cleaning a Mammalian Heart for Display Purposes
By C. Romero-Sierra, J.K. Desmarteau, & K.C. Carlson
OPINION
We’ve had it
By Daniel J. Farber
Orphaned and Endangered Natural History Collections — A Statement
By Robert M. West, Director Carnegie Museum of Natural History
ARTICLES
A Common Problem for Museums — The Space-Cost Crisis: here is one solution
By Dave Fenner
Ideas on How to Better Preserve Collections of Natural History: we need to do something
By Mary-Lou E. Florian
Preparation from preserved dissection discards of skeletal material for teaching and display
By A.P. Russell and B. Curtis
Preservation of Douglas fir branches for display purposes
By C. Romero-Sierra and J.C. Webb
Preparation of freeze-dried hearts for use as teaching aids
By C. Romero-Sierra, J.C. Webb, G.W. Lyons, J.K. Desmarteau and K.C. Carlson
1986 MEETING ABSTRACTS
Volume 3, Numbers 1 & 2, Fall 1987
OPINION
Who are the Bosses? Daniel J. Farber
ARTICLES
Microfil Injections of Small Vertebrates: An Adjunct to Clearing and Staining
By Anthony P. Russell, Aaron M. Bauer1 and Richard L. Walker
Biomass Loss in Wet-preserved Reference Collections By
Derek V. Ellis
Improvements in the Construction of Plastic Display Jars for Museums
By G.W. Lyons
“Cased” Bird Skins -An Alternate Opening Incision
By Stephen A. Halford
The Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory: an enviable insect collection
By D. Keith, McE. Kevan and P.M. Sanborne
Zoological Collection Incunabula: The Wied Brazilian Collection
By Marie A. Lawrence
The Natural History Museum of the Carnegie: an American institution holding impressive natural history collections
By John E. Rawlins, Duane A. Schlitter and Stephen L. Williams
The MAcGill University Herbarium: the development of Quebec’s eminent herbarium
By Marcia J. Waterway
Mont St. Hilaire. Montreal’s Scientific Reserve: A mountain for scientific research
By Martin J. Lechowicz
The Morgan Arboretum and Woodlands: an important living collection of trees and plants
By A.R.C. Jones
Teaching with Natural History Specimens
By Mary Ann Dancey and Joanne G. Faber
1987 Meeting Abstracts
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1988
OPINION
Lest We Forget
By Daniel J. Farber
ARTICLES
Application of an Inventory of a Museum Collection
By F. Rafi
Preservation of Sitka Spruce for Museum Display
By C. Romero-Sierra and J.C. Webb
Flat Fossil Molds with Silicone
By W.Y. Watson and Scott Grant
Improvements in Techniques for Freeze-Drying Vertebrate Specimens
By C. Romero-Sierra, J.C. Webb, P. Lane and G.W. Lyons
Memoires of a Collection Addict
By David M. Baird, O.C.
The Embryological Collection of the Hubrecht Laboratory
By G.C. Bangma
Systematic Collection Curators as Historic Preservationists: Case Studies from the MCZ
Mammal and Bird Departments
By M.R. Massaro
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Janet Waddington
Mary Anne Dancey
Joanne Faber
Preventative Conservation of Amber: Some Preliminary Investigations.
Janet Waddington and Julia Fenn
An Apparatus for Minimizing the Influence of Carbonic Acid During Surfac pH Measurements of Museum Materials.
Stephen L. Williams
Documentation Guidelines for the Preparation and Conservation of Paleontological and Geological Specimens.
Gerald R. Fitzgerald
Computerized Specimen and Preparation/Conservation Worksheets for Fossil Vertebrates
Kevin Seymour
Review of Organizations and Resources That Serve the Needs of Natural History Collections.
Paisley S. Cato
Endangered and Orphaned Natural History and Anthropology Collections in the United States and Canada.
Robert M. West
Volume 5, Number 1 Spring 1989
Archival storage of disintegrating labels from fluid-preserved specimens.
Carla H. Kishinami
Health considerations of radon source fossil vertebrate specimens
Mary R. Carman and Jeffrey D. Carman
Effects of initial preparation methods on dermestid cleaning of osteological
materials Stephen L. Williams and Stephen P. Rogers
Golden Oldies: curating SEM specimens Julia Golden
Natural history collections management at the Royal Ontario Museum. .
Janet Waddington
A treatment for bison hornsheaths Mary Peever
Volume 5, Number 2 Fall 1989
The effects of freezing on formalin preservation of specimens of frogs and snakes Norman J. Scott, Jr., and Aida Luz Aquino-Shuster
Documentation guidelines for the preparation of biological specimens
Kimball L. Garrett
Integrated pest management at the Denver Museum of Natural History.
Elizabeth A. Webb, Carl Patterson, Canon A. Meaney, and Bryce Snellgrove
Collection automation: Tailoring database and collection management to suit a natural history collection
Susan M. Woodward
A coding system for nature of specimen for Recent mammal collections: Mixing documentation needs, tradition, and computers.
Susan M. Woodward
Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 1990
Freezing for museum insect pest eradication
Mary-Lou Florian
A low-cost radioactivity test for geologic specimens.
Alice M. Blount
A new means of controlling relative humidity in exhibit cases.
Catherine Sease
pH change in a formalin borax solution with inferences about uses of neutralized formalin in vertebrate collections
Grant W. Hughes and James A. Cosgrove
Modification of storage design to mitigate insect problems
Stephen L. Williams and Suzanne B. McLaren
Coloring labels for type specimens.
Gisbert and R. Garcia-Perea
Labeling vertebrate collections with Tyvek® synthetic paper.
J. Gisbert, F. Palacios, and R. Garcia-Perea
An indelible printing system for permanent records in natural history
collections F. Palacios and J. Gisbert
The effects of freezing and freeze-drying on natural history specimens
Mary-Lou Florian
Characteristics of a collection of fluid-preserved mammals and implications for collection management Paisley S. Cato
Infrared spectroscopic analysis of Central and South American amber exposed to air pollutants, biocides, light, and moisture
R. Scott Williams, Janet B. Waddington, and Julia Fenn
Observations on enzyme preparation effects on skeletal material
Sally Y. Shelton and John S. Buckley
Integrating specimen documentation, processing, and data automation in a mammal collection: A case study of an accession database
Susan M. Woodward
Volume 7, Number 1 Spring 1991
Curation of invertebrate fossil collections at the Milwaukee Public Museum
Paula M. Sumpter
Rehousing of paleontological Naturales, Madrid, Spain
Angel Montero and Carmen Dieguez
Investigation of the causes of structural damage to teeth in natural history collections
Stephen L. Williams
Computerization benefits for small invertebrate natural history collections with particular reference to Insecta
John A. Adams, Jean-Pierre R. Le Blanc, and D. Gregory Bishop
Alginate impression material.
Gerardo de luliis and Leonard J. S. Tsuji
Volume 7, Number 2 Fall 1991
Variability in measurements resulting from microscopic analyses of collagen shrinkage-temperature
Stephen L. Williams
Using PARIS documentation as a research tool in palynology.
David M. Jarzen
Summary of a study to evaluate collection manager-type positions
Paisley S. Cato
Museum collections: Fundamental values and modern problems
H. V. Danks
Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 1992
Plague at the museum: Disease transmission potential and biosafety precautions
James A. Cosgrove, Daphne F. V. Donaldson, Grant W. Hughes and W. Wayne Maloff
Minimization of potential problems associated with the morphometry of
spirit-preserved bat wings
Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds and Anthony P. Russell
Methods of processing osteological material for research value and longterm stability
Stephen L. Williams
Improving the selectivity of a selective dissolution process: A solution for removing calcite from fluorapatite
R. Robert Waller, Robert A. Stairs and Tom Miller
A review of published temperatures for the control of pest insects in museums
Thomas J. K. Strang
New materials for sealing old crocks
Arnold Y. Suzumoto
Shipping of pinned insects
Richard S. Peigler
Conditions on outgoing research loans
Elizabeth Merritt
Volume 9, Number 1 Spring 1993
Nature of the alterations which form on pyrite and marcasite during collection storage.
Alice M. Blount
Conservation of a dinosaur trackway exhibit.
S. Y. Shelton, R. C. Barnett, and M. D. Magruder
Institution-wide policy for sampling.
Paisley S. Cato
Effect of relative humidity on cranial dimensions of mammals.
Stephen L. Williams, A. Michelle Wallace, and Clyde Jones
Approaches to mold design and construction.
Brian Iwama
Floor loading considerations in a palaeontological collection.
Janet Waddington
Packing fluid-preserved herpetological specimens for shipment.
C. J. McCoy
A database for frozen tissues and karyotype slides.
Susan M. Woodward and Wendy E. Hlywka
Guidelines for developing policies for the management and care of natural history collections.
Paisley S. Cato and Stephen L. Williams
Sandblasted plastic boxes for processing specimens in dermestid colonies.
Frederick J. Jannett, Jr. and John G. Davies
Volume 10, Number 1 Spring 1994
Transportation of fluid-preserved natural history specimens stored in glass containers: new solutions to an old problem.
Paul F. Clark, Oliver A. Crimmen, Fred C. Naggs, Andrew D. Wahl, and Morris C. Mansfield
Spirit collections: a preliminary analysis of some organic materials found in the storage fluids of mammals.
David W. Von Endt
Evaluation of the effects of different preservative and fixative fluids on aquatic invertebrates from insterstitial waters.
Ana Isabel Camacho and Jose Bedoya
Guidelines for the care of natural history collections.
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
The effect of propylene glycol on ethanol concentrations determined by density measurement.
Nancy A. Boase and Robert R. Waller
Studies of the Russell Effect: Part I. Procedure and applications.
Carolyn Grace Kendall- Webb Leckie and Stephen L. Williams
Studies of the Russell Effect: Part II. Interpretation and reproducibility.
Carolyn Grace Kendall-Webb Leckie and Stephen L. Williams
Ionising radiation associated with the mineral collection of the National Museum of Wales
Michael P. Lambert
Volume 11, Number 1 Spring 1995
National Museum of Wales specimen condition survey form for geological collections.
Caroline J. Buttler
The reliability of spot tests for the detection of arsenic and mercury in natural history collections: a case study.
Christine Found and Kate Helwig
Interaction of research, management, and conservation for serving the long-term interests of natural history collections.
Stephen L. Williams and Paisley S. Cato
Evaluation of an integrated pest management program. Division of Birds, U.S. National Museum of Natural History.
Carla J. Dove
Volume 11, Number 2 Fall 1995
Observations on formalin-induced darkening of herpetological specimens.
James N. Stuart
Effect of osteological processing treatments on dimensions and moisture absorption potential of rodent skills.
Stephen L. Williams and Heather C. Smith
Fixation and preservation of museum marine collections using formaldehyde/glutaraldehyde mixes.
A.B. Stephenson and J.L. Riley
SPNHC: The first ten years
Stephen L. Williams
Volume 12, Number 1 Spring 1996
Observations of temperature and relative humidity during the cooling and warming of botanical specimens for insect pest control.
Michael J. Shchepanek
Categories of specimens: a collection management tool.
Judith C. Price and Gerald R. Fitzgerald
Disaster planning for a sceptical museum.
Jane Pickering
Applying McGinley’s model for collection assessment to collections of Recent vertebrates.
Stephen L. Williams, R. Richard Monk, and Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
Tape application: ajar sealing method for reducing ethanol evaporation in fluid-preserved collections.
Michele Steigerwald and Sylvie Laframboise
Norwegian Natural History Museum collection computerization: a first
report.
Hans Arne Nakrem
A study of the response of dry skin tissue to water saturation and subsequent drying treatment.
Stephen L. Williams
Physical chemical properties of preservative solutions—I. Ethanol-water solutions.
Robert Waller and Thomas J. K. Strang
Volume 13, Number 1 Spring 1997
An investigation of pH changes in a selection of formaldehyde buffering agents used on a fish, parasitology research collection.
Julian Carter
An investigation into the composition of botanical wax models with a view to their conservation.
Victoria J. Purewal
Problems facing smaller herbaria.
Anita F. Cholewa
Preliminary analysis of the effects of cold storage on fur garments and mammal skins.
Marilen A. Pool
The contribution of in-state depositories to the natural history of their states.
Arnold Grobman
Volume 13, Number 2 Spring 1999
Initial Results from Cleaning Small Vertebrate Skeletons using the Enzyme Trypsin.
David W. Von Endt, Charles A. Ross, and P. Edgar Hare
Changes in pH in Museum Storage Fluids, I—Effects of Resistall paper labels.
Mary Anne Andrei and Hugh H. Genoways
Evaluation of Temperature Regimes for the Control of Insect Pests of Museum Collections.
Martyn J. Linnie
Score! A Method for Constructing Improved Polyethylene Liners for Specimen Trays.
Paul Brinkman
Survey of Gaseous Pollutant Concentration Distributions in Mineral Collections.
Robert Waller, Katherine Andrew, and Jean Tetreault
Archaeological Artifact Attrition: Time’s Arrow and Collection Depletion.
Robert R. Kautz
Different Degradation Effects on Miocene Whale Skeletal Remains from Gram, Denmark, Caused by the Clay Matrix.
Ingela Chef Holmberg
The Warping and Cracking of Plexiglas® Specimen Containers.
Andries J. van Dam, Jacques P.M. van der Ploeg, Ger J.M. Koper and Dick Bedeaux
Use of a Low-oxygen Atmosphere for the Control of Insect Pests.
Martyn J. Linnie
Spirit Collections: Accelerated Aging Studies Concerning the Stability of Keratin in Ethanol and Formalin.
D. W. von Endt, E.R. Yourd, and P.E. Hare
The Interactions of Preservative Fluid, Specimen Container, and Sealant in a Fluid Collection.
Andries J. van Dam
Priorities for Natural History Collections Conservation Research: Results of a Survey of the SPNHC Membership.
Paisley S. Cato, Diana H. Dicus, and David von Endt
Disaster Recovery in the Herbarium.
Debra S. Baker and Caleb A. Morse
Fire Recovery at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum: Part I — Initial Response and Implications for Disaster Planning.
Fiona Graham and Sarah Spafford
Fire Recovery at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum: Part II — Post-disaster Cleanup and Soot Removal.
Fiona Graham and Sarah Spafford
Length Changes in White Sturgeon Larvae Preserved in Ethanol or Formaldehyde.
Jennifer M. Bayer and Timothy D. Counihan
A Study in Team Building: The Collections Managers’ Group at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Susan M. Woodward and Sheila C. Byers
Volume 16 (1-2) 2001
Abstracts
Volume 17 (1-2) Fall 2001
Contaminated Collections: Preservation, Access and Use (Special Proceedings Volume)
Preface.
Jessica S. Johnson
Executive Summary: Contaminated Collections: Preservation, Access and Use
A New Challenge, A New Opportunity (Keynote Address).
James D. Nason
Contaminated Collections: An Overview of the Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues.
Rebecca Tsosie
NAGPRA Artifact Repatriation and Pesticides Contamination: The Hopi Experience
Micah Loma’omvaya
Poisoning the Sacred.
G. Peter Jemison
Issues in Communication and Training Venues: Museums and Tribal Communities.
Susan Secakuku
Analysis of Museum Objects for Hazardous Pesticide Residues: A Guide to Techniques.
P. Jane Sirois and Genevieve Sansoucy
Poisoned Heritage: Curatorial Assessment and Implications of Pesticide Residues in Anthropological Collections. James D. Nason
Tribal Repatriation of Sacred Objects: Public Health Issues.
Ana Maria Osorio
Hazard Identification and Exposure Assessment Related to Handling and Use of Contaminated Collection Materials and Sacred Objects
Kathryn A. Makos
American Indian Concepts of Object Use.
Alyce Sadongei
Methods to Mitigate Risks from Use of Contaminated Objects, Including Methods to Decontaminate Affected Objects.
Nancy Odegaard
A Review of Methods to Mitigate the Risks from Use of Contaminated Objects.
Marian A. Kaminitz
An Exploratory Assessment of the State of a Fluid-Preserved Herpetological Collection.
Robert Waller and John E. Simmons
The Theoretical Bases of Collections Management.
John E. Simmons and Yaneth Muhoz-Saba
Use of Temperature to Control an Infestation of Biscuit or Drugstore Beetle Stegobium paniceum (L.) (ColeopterarAnobidae) in a Large
Economic Botany Collection.
Naomi Rumball and David Pinniger
Oh No! Ethnobotany. The Safe Handling and Storage of Hazardous Ethnobotanical Artifacts.
Rose Kubiatowicz and Lori Benson
Effects of Various Fumigants, Thermal Methods and Carbon Dioxide Treatment on DNA Extraction and Amplification: A Case Study on Freeze-Dried Mushroom and Freeze-Dried Muscle Specimens.
Rika Kigawa, Hideaki Nochide, Hiroshi Kimura, and Sadatoshi Miura
Examination of Macroscopic Particles from Dust Accumulations in Collection Storage Areas.
Stephen L. Williams and Laura B. Branstetter-Wolansky
Phenoxyethanol as a Relaxant Before Fixation in the Sea Cucumber Cucumaria miniata (Echinodermata).
Kelly Sendall
DMDM-Hydantoin: The Promising Result of a Search for an Alternative in Fluid Preservation of Biological Specimens.
Andries J. van Dam
Weight Changes on Oxidation of Drying and Semi-Drying Oils.
Charles S. Tumosa and Marion F. Mecklenburg
SPNHC: The Second Ten Years (1995-2005).
Stephen L. Williams and Suzanne B. McLaren
Heat Treatment of Entomological Drawers Using the Thermo Lignum® Heat Process.
Phillip Ackery, David Pinniger, Adrian Doyle, and Karen Roux
Multiple Interacting Factors Affect pH in Museum Storage Solutions.
Chad W. Hargrave, Katherine G. Sutherland, Edie Marsh-Matthews, and William J. Matthews
Policy Theory and Application for Museums.
Stephen L. Williams
Decontamination of Ethnological Collections Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.
Helene Tello, Erich Jelen, and Achim Unger
Laser-Printed Labels in Wet Collections: Will They Hold Up?
Krista Zala, N. Dean Pentcheff, and Regina Wetzer
Collection Ideas: Eartliquake Strapping.
Tania Collas
Investigation of Solid Phase Microextraction Sampling for Organic Pesticide Residues on Museum Collections.
Mark Ormshy, Jessica S. Johnson, Susan Heald, Lauren Chang, and Jenifer Bosworth
Testing Cultural Material for Arsenic and Interpreting the Results: A Case Study at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Barbara Hamann
Pesticide Contamination on Native American Artifacts – Methods, Results from Six Case Studies, and Next Steps.
Peter T. Palmer, Matthew Martin, Gregory Wentworth, Salvatore Ostini, Chris Prospero, and Madeleine Fang
Detection and Mitigation Strategies for Contaminated NAGPRA Objects — The Seneca Nation’s Experience.
Peter Reuben
Use of Handheld XRF for the Study of Pesticide Residues on Museum Objects.
Nancy Odegaard, David R. Smith, Leslie V. Boyer, and Jae Anderson
Exposure of Museum Staff to Formaldehyde During Some Wet Specimen Activities.
G. Edward Burroughs, Kathryn Makos, Catharine Hawks, and Timothy J. Ryan
On the Development, Care, and Maintenance of Collections of Reference and Subfossil Seed and Plant Macroremains.
Alwynne B. Beaudoin
The Effect of Relative Humidity on Mollusc Periostracum and the Use of Coalings to Prevent Loss.
Joanna Morton
The Future of Collections: An Approach to Collections Management Training for Developing Countries.
John E. Simmons and Yaneth Muhoz-Saba
Colombian Herbaria.
Yaneth Muhoz-Saba, Edgar L. Linares, Wilson Devia, and Fernando Cast
Using Capillarity for Determining and Maintaining a Polymer Consolidant Concentration after Solution Preparation.
Tim J. Fedak
Realising standards: Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary Conference
(Edited by C. Giles Miller)
Foreword.
Richard Lane
SYNTHESYS Network Activity C — Assessing Standards of Collections in European Museums.
Christopher Collins, Lorraine Cornish, Robert Huxley, and Simon J. Owens
Improving Curation Standards in Paleontology Collections through the Application of “McGinley Levels.”
Tiffany S. Adrain, David. N. Lewis, and Mary M. Horton
Standards for the U.S. Antarctic Meteorite Program Collection; Preserving Outer Space in Museum Space
Linda C. Welzenbach, Timothy J. McCoy, Kevin Righter, and Cecilia E. Satterwhite
Maintaining Standards in the Care of Petrology and Mineralogy Collections at the National Museum Wales.
Helen C. Kerbey and Jana M. Horak
Integrated Collection Management at the National Museum Wales.
Peter Hewlett and Jana Horak
A Standard Syllabus for Natural History Conservation Training in the United Kingdom.
Caroline Buttler and Robert Child
Minimizing the Risks from the Ten Agents of Deterioration in Two New West Midlands Museum Resource Centres, UK.
Katherine J. Andrew
Climate Control in an Uncontrollable Building.
Paolo Viscardi, Julia D. Sigwart, and Nigel T. Monaghan
Levels of IPM Control: Matching Conditions to Performance and Effort.
Tom Strang and Rika Kigawa
A Contribution to Standards for Freezing as a Pest Control Method for Museums.
Jan-Erik Bergh, Karl-Martin V. Jensen, Monika Akerlund, Lise S. Hansen, and Martin Andren
Japanese Tissues: Uses in Repairing Natural Science Specimens.
Simon Moore
The Effects of Tanning and Fixing Processes on the Properties of Taxidermy Skins.
Amandine Pequignot, Charles S. Tumosa, and David W. von Endt
Arsenic in Taxidermy Collections: History, Detection, and Management.
Fernando Marte, Amandine Pequignot, and David Vk Von Endt
Tie It to the Tray! Safely Shipping Native American Artifacts.
__ Gretchen Anderson and Rebecca Newberry
Calling on GOD: The Gallery Object Database at the Royal Ontario Museum
Janet Waddington, William Pratt, and Jovanna Scorsone
Re-Curation of Alcohol-Preserved Specimens: Comparison of Gradual Versus Direct Specimen Transfer on Specimen Condition and Assessment of Specimen Value.
Paula E. Cushing and Jozef A. Slowik
Anoxic Treatment of Insect Collections and Implications of Drawer Design.
Jan-Erik Bergh and Monika Akerlund
Risk Zones for IPM: From Concept to Implementation.
Adrian M. Doyle, David Pinniger, and Suzanne Ryde
Presence of Elemental Mercury in Fluid Preserved Specimens
John E. Simmons, Andrew C. Campbell, and Eli Greenbaum
Formaldehyde Hyperbaric Fixation.
A. Clique, J.E Ponge, Y.D. Sellos, and D. Especel
Potential Effect of Residual Anti-Parasitic Compound in Muscle Tissue on a Museum Dermestid Beetle Colony.
Paula E Cushing, Vivian Pliler, and C.S. Ware
Profiling Natural History Collections: A Method for Quantitative and Comparative Health Assessment.
C. Favret, K.S. Cummings, RJ. McGinley, EJ. Heske, K.P Johnson, CA. Phillips, L.R. Phillippe, .M.E. Retzer, CA. Taylor, and M.J. Wetzel
Shipping and Handling of Natural History Specimens in Dangerous Goods.
Andrew C. Bentley
Moving into the Future: Relocating the South African National Fish Collection to a New, Dedicated Collection Facility.
Willem Coetzer, Ofer Gon and Paul H. Skelton
Detection and Enumeration of Potentially Zoonotic Bacteria on a Cetacean Specimen During Maceration.
Premroy Jadubansa and Richard C. Sabin
A New Approach to Stabilize the pH in Fluid-Preserved Natural History Collections.
Marion Kotrba and Klaus Golbig
The Inherent Levels of Arsenic and Mercury in Artifact Materials.
Peggi S. Cross and Nancy Odegaard
The Effect of pH on Ethanol Preserved Muscle Tissue.
Julian Carter
Maintaining concentration: A new practical method for profiling and topping up alcohol preserved collections.
David G. Notton
Detecting pesticide residues on museum objects in Canadian collections — a summary of surveys spanning a twenty-year period.
P. Jane Sirois, Jennifer Poulin, and Tom Stone
A curatorial assessment for stratigraphic collections to determine suitability for incorporation into a systematic collection.
Susan H. Butts, Jessica A. Bazeley, and Derek E. G. Briggs
Metal-lid jars in museum collections?
Anders Warén, Emily Dock-Åkerman, and Hanna Taylor
Development of best practices for integrated pest management and a best practices model for the wider museum sector.
Lisa Kronthal Elkin, Christopher A. Norris, and Derya Golpinar
Conducting collection assessments with an emphasis on paleontological collections.
Kathy A. Hollis, Dena M. Smith, and Christina R. Spence
The utility of chicken broth in the preparation of skeletons from fresh and fluid-preserved vertebrate specimens.
Kirsten E. Nicholson and Dana M. Smith
Banquet address and naming of the SPNHC Travel Grant honoring Jerry Fitzgerald.
Richard K. Rabeler
Naming of the SPNHC Travel Grant honoring Jerry Fitzgerald, Response.
Gerald R. Fitzgerald
Presentation of the Carolyn B. Rose Award to Robert Waller.
Catharine Hawks
Acceptance of the Carolyn B. Rose Award.
Robert Waller
Alcohol recycling at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).
William G. Keel, William Moser, Jennifer Giaccai, Andrea Ormos, Jackson Tanner, and Lee A. Weigt
Working towards standardization: A survey of curation procedures in invertebrate paleontology collections.
Jessica D. Cundiff
On the development, maintenance, and use of a modern pollen reference collection.
Alwynne B. Beaudoin
The Institut Québécois de la Biodiversité (IQBIO) and natural history collections in Quebec.
Pierre Brunel
Microfade testing to support exhibit decisions: The Catharine Parr Traill Scrapbooks.
Season Tse, Luci Cipera, and Carolyn Leckie
Portable X-ray fluorescence for the examination of taxidermy specimens at the Horniman Museum—exploring the possibilities.
Louise Bacon, Georgina Garrett, Monika Harter, and Felicity Bolton
Integrated pest management challenges in a retrofitted building for Yale Peabody Museum collections.
Lynn A. Jones and Raymond J. Pupedis
Effect of container glass quality on pH in natural history wet collections.
Marion Kotrba and Klaus Golbig
Flat file to relational: The evolution of a type catalogue of invertebrate fossils.
Janet Waddington
25 Years of SPNHC: the present is the key to the future.
Richard K. Rabeler and Russell D. (Tim) White
Enhancing the Bear Gulch Paleontological Research Collection at the University of Montana.
Kallie L. Moore and George D. Stanley, Jr.
Developing a Technical and Condition Database for California Native American Feartherwork.
Ellen Pearlstein, Molly Gleeson, and Rene E. Riedler
A Grand Scale: Rehousing the Mollusk Collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phildelphia.
Paul Callomon and Gary Rosenberg
The Restoration of Color to Avian Taxidermy Mounts.
Bethany Palumbo
GIS, The Key to Collections Management of a Large Research Archive.
Ann Molineux, Louis Zachos, Katharine E. Criswell and Taylor Risien
Evaluation of a Collections Network as a Source of Information on Economically Important Plants.
Giselle Mitrow and Paul Catling
High-Throughput Digitization of Original Museum Source Documentation.
Jessica R. Slawski
Tissue and DNA Banking at the New York Botanical Garden.
Lisa M. Campbell, Megan E. Quenzer, Gabriele Droge, Anthony Kirchgessner, Joshua Simpson and Melissa Tulig.
Short Report: Investigatin the Effects on Tissue Preservation of DMDM-Hydantoin Using FTIR Spectroscopy.
Julian D. Carter
Acceptance fo the Carolyn L. Rose Award.
John E. Simmons
Presentation of the President’s Award the Andrew Bentley
Elana Belany
Acceptance of the President’s Award
Andrew Bentley
Special Issue: Preventive Conservation
Preface
Lisa Elkin and Catharine Hawks
Resources for preventive conservation and collections care.
Rebecca Fifield, Rachael P. Arenstein, and Molly Gleeson
The state of the art in cultural property risk analysis: Reflections on the Lisbon 2011 International Symposium and Workshop on Cultural Property Risk Analysis.
Robert Waller
Research on energy savings in collections environments: A case study of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library.
Jeremy Linden, James Reilly, and Peter Herzog
Effectiveness of entomological collection storage cabinets in maintaining stable relative humidity and temperature in a historic museum building.
Hanna Szczepanowska, Floyd W. Shockley, David G. Furth, Patricia Gentili, Darnell Bell, Paula T. DePriest, Marion Mecklenburg, and Catharine Hawks
Microfading: The state of the art for natural history collections.
Bruce Ford and Jim Druzik
Defensible collections: Designing a safe exhibit space.
Jeffrey Hirsch and Casey Gallagher
Application of preventive conservation to solve the coming crisis in collections management.
John E. Simmons
Presentation of the Carolyn L. Rose Award to Catharine Hawks.
Lisa Goldberg
Acceptance of the Carolyn L. Rose Award.
Catharine Hawks
Presentation of the President’s Award to Russell D. (Tim) White.
Jean-Marc Gagnon and Greg Watkins-Colwell
Acceptance of the President’s Award.
Russell D. (Tim) White
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