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Notizen
zu geben. Jedenfalls werden wir die weitere Entwicklung dieses neuen Produktes
der Münchner Museumskunst mit Aufmerksamkeit zu verfolgen haben. E. H.
Museum Reports. Ganz im Sinne des Aufsatzes von Bather, der im 1. Band
der Museumskunde erschien (S. 38—40), ist folgende Mitteilung des von E. Ernest Lowe
herausgegebenen Jahresberichtes 1906—7 des Municipal Museum and Art Gallery
zu Plymouth gehalten:
Complaint has been made that Museum reports are, in general, of very little
interest or use to the Museum worker: possibly it may help in a slight degree
to remove this stigma if a few minor notes on preparation, etc., are recorded.
It is not expected that they will prove entirely new.
I. Cementing lids on square glass jars containing objects in strong
spirit. This often proves a difficulty, especially where the liquid is in contact
with the cement. After much experimenting it was found that fluid seccotine set
hard when immersed in strong methylated spirit or alcohol. Jars were then filled with
spirit, the lids cemented down with seccotine (the edges of both jar and lid being
first carefully dried), the seccotine allowed to set, and the jars afterwards inverted.
After remaining upsidedown for twelve months there is no trace of leakage. A
mixture of equal parts of glue and plaster of paris has been found equally good,
but seccotine has the advantage of being always ready for use. It is essential
that the surfaces to which the cement is applied should be perfectly dry.
2. Cementing lids on jars containing objects in formalin or other
watery preservative. No cement could be found which would resist contact
with a watery fluid, until the recently advertised Caementium was tried. Applied
according to directions, this has answered so well that a jar of water whose lid was
fastened down therewith, has stood upside-down for two months without leakage.
3. Cementing opaquespecimens to glass, when spirit is the preservative,
has been easily accomplished with seccotine, thus avoiding the labour and difficulty
of boring the glass. When the preserving medium is formalin, gelatine is the
proper cement.
4. In lieu of injection, the painting of organs has been tried in the
case ofa dissection of Sepia officinalis preserved in spirit. By mixing seccotine
with ordinary watercolours, very satisfactory and apparently permanent results
have been obtained.
5. Small key-labels were required for numbering case-keys, and difficulty was
found in getting a good material. Bone, ivory, and brass are expensive, and small sizes
difficult to procure. Ultimately very successful labels were cut with scissors from
a sheet of thick white xylonite, fitted with split rings, and numbered with a punch.
6. For painting back-grounds, shelves, etc., “Olsina" water-paint has
proved excellent. It is cheap, easily applied, has a good surface, and is made in
useful and harmonious tints.
Notizen
zu geben. Jedenfalls werden wir die weitere Entwicklung dieses neuen Produktes
der Münchner Museumskunst mit Aufmerksamkeit zu verfolgen haben. E. H.
Museum Reports. Ganz im Sinne des Aufsatzes von Bather, der im 1. Band
der Museumskunde erschien (S. 38—40), ist folgende Mitteilung des von E. Ernest Lowe
herausgegebenen Jahresberichtes 1906—7 des Municipal Museum and Art Gallery
zu Plymouth gehalten:
Complaint has been made that Museum reports are, in general, of very little
interest or use to the Museum worker: possibly it may help in a slight degree
to remove this stigma if a few minor notes on preparation, etc., are recorded.
It is not expected that they will prove entirely new.
I. Cementing lids on square glass jars containing objects in strong
spirit. This often proves a difficulty, especially where the liquid is in contact
with the cement. After much experimenting it was found that fluid seccotine set
hard when immersed in strong methylated spirit or alcohol. Jars were then filled with
spirit, the lids cemented down with seccotine (the edges of both jar and lid being
first carefully dried), the seccotine allowed to set, and the jars afterwards inverted.
After remaining upsidedown for twelve months there is no trace of leakage. A
mixture of equal parts of glue and plaster of paris has been found equally good,
but seccotine has the advantage of being always ready for use. It is essential
that the surfaces to which the cement is applied should be perfectly dry.
2. Cementing lids on jars containing objects in formalin or other
watery preservative. No cement could be found which would resist contact
with a watery fluid, until the recently advertised Caementium was tried. Applied
according to directions, this has answered so well that a jar of water whose lid was
fastened down therewith, has stood upside-down for two months without leakage.
3. Cementing opaquespecimens to glass, when spirit is the preservative,
has been easily accomplished with seccotine, thus avoiding the labour and difficulty
of boring the glass. When the preserving medium is formalin, gelatine is the
proper cement.
4. In lieu of injection, the painting of organs has been tried in the
case ofa dissection of Sepia officinalis preserved in spirit. By mixing seccotine
with ordinary watercolours, very satisfactory and apparently permanent results
have been obtained.
5. Small key-labels were required for numbering case-keys, and difficulty was
found in getting a good material. Bone, ivory, and brass are expensive, and small sizes
difficult to procure. Ultimately very successful labels were cut with scissors from
a sheet of thick white xylonite, fitted with split rings, and numbered with a punch.
6. For painting back-grounds, shelves, etc., “Olsina" water-paint has
proved excellent. It is cheap, easily applied, has a good surface, and is made in
useful and harmonious tints.