SPNHC Annual Meeting

The 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of
Natural History Collections (SPNHC) will be held at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, DC, USA from 27 June - 2 July 1999.

There are workshops on Finance and Funding: Linking Collections Care
Needs to Money in the Museum, Rigging: Lifting and Moving Large
Objects, and CO2 Fumigation: Atmospheric Treatment of Museum Objects
for Pest Control; field trips to the Smithsonian Institution
Naturalist Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife National
Conservation Training Center, Jefferson Patterson Park (Academy of
Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center and Maryland
Archaeological Conservation Laboratory), Fossil Localities in
Calvert County, and Alexandria Archaeology; collections tours of
various Smithsonian Institution facilities and centers; and social
events in addition to the main meetings including three specialty
sessions: Molecular Research/Frozen Tissue Collections; Health and
Safety Issues in Collections; and, Repatriation.

Please check the SPNHC web site at
<URL:http://www.spnhc.org/wash99/>

Sally Y. Shelton
President, SPNHC
Collections Officer
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 12:86
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