Drying wet mummy

[Todd Newberry]

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
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