WHALES EMBALMED
CAUGHT FOR MUSEUM LONDON, Juno 28. “They look just like crystallised fruit,” proudly observed. Mr Percy Stannwitz to-day, concerning two 45ft twenty-five-ton whales which he embalmed as a holiday task at Aalesund Harbour (Norway). Mr Stannwitz escorted Ins huge specimens aboard ship to London, for the Kensington Natural History Museum, of which ho is an official. “ I witnessed their capture,’ he said. “They were towed to harbour, cleaned, and packed in thirty tons of salt apiece. Sixty gallons of formalin was injected into their veins. , , , “They are the first whales to be embalmed in Europe and shipped to England lying in salt in a vessel s hold. The preserving fluid was injected hypodermically daily, and I think they will last for two years. “I embalmed them for practice in making a plaster cast of the whale, which must previously be embalmed.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20846, 16 July 1931, Page 9
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