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THE general practice of using ethyl alcohol as a preservative fluid for museum specimens has several disadvantages. At the present time when we are faced with the possibility of high explosives and incendiary bombs damaging museums, the inflammability of alcohol naturally causes much concern to the staff of such institutions. Ten years ago1 I directed attention to a preservative fluid, first used by W. Pampel2, for storing specimens of insects for several years with the tissues soft and in good condition for subsequent dissection. I gave this medium the name of ‘Pampel's fluid’ and its composition is as follows:
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Bull. Entom. Res., 20, 169, (1929).
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IMMS, A. A ‘Safe’ Fluid for Museum Use. Nature 144, 599–600 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144599b0
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