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The SPNHC Conservation Committee is hosting a symposium at SPNHC 2025 at Lawrence KS, and welcomes your expertise! Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, due March 10, 2025. The conference will take ...

The SPNHC Conservation Committee is hosting a symposium at SPNHC 2025 at Lawrence KS, and welcomes your expertise! Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for the Conservation of Natural History Collections, due March 3, 2025. The conference will take ...

Rebecca, I'd like to see your articles on chandelier cleaning, if you could direct me to them. Thanks! ------------------------------ Cindy Opitz Director of Research Collections Museum of Natural History and Old Capitol Museum The University of Iowa Iowa City IA 319-335-0481 ------ ...

We use large LDPE bags from the Associated Bag Co. and tie them shut with twill tape. They carry a variety of thicknesses. They also sell smaller zipper-lock bags, of polyethylene and polypropylene. associatedbag.com Uline.com is another source of PE and PP bags. ------------------------------ ...

A colleague at a historic site contacted me to ask how to remove bat guano and urine from artifacts that had been stored in a historic house attic with a bat infestation. The bats were successfully excluded in 2019, but guano and urine stains remain on furniture (bed frames, dressers, desks, wood-frame ...