7 messages in edu.ku.nhm.mailman.taxacomDrying wet mummy
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Paulo Andreas BuckupAug 22, 1995 7:25 pm 
Todd NewberryAug 23, 1995 6:19 am 
San Diego Natural History Museum LibraryAug 23, 1995 8:23 am 
GB:'X0B$4fAB92GB5Aug 23, 1995 10:18 am 
Robert RobbinsAug 23, 1995 12:37 pm 
San Diego Natural History Museum LibraryAug 23, 1995 1:04 pm 
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Subject:Drying wet mummyActions...
From:Todd Newberry (ta@BIOLOGY.UCSC.EDU)
Date:Aug 23, 1995 6:19:29 am
List:edu.ku.nhm.mailman.taxacom

Taxacomers --

I agree with this prescription -- it is no joke. Stanford sought to save an enormous number of books that were flooded a few years ago, and it went to NASA/AMES to find a vacuum chamber big enough to take big batches of books at a time, and did just this procedure, and it worked.

-- Todd Newberry Santa Cruz CAL taxa at cats.ucsc.edu

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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, GB:'X0B$4fAB92GB5 wrote:

Dear Paulo,

I am wonder if you have large vacuum chamber available. Put mummy onto 5 cm strong layer of silicon granules (used to keep instruments dry) and slowly decrease of air pressure. Repeat three times.

Regards

Vratislav Richard Bejsak Coleoptera - Australia, Tenebrionidae of World Konevova 1658/110 130 00 Prague 3 Zizkov CZECH Rep. voice: (42+2) 270 849 fax : (41+2) 311 6545 email: 76711,1261 at compuserve.com (I am from Australia, this address is for one or two years)