Measuring and mitigating mercury vapour in the collection cabinets at Museums Victoria

References

• Abraham, N 2018, ‘Goddard developed coating investigated for protecting Smithsonian specimens’, National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Goddard’s Cutting Edge, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 13–18.
   Google Scholar
• Boccia Paterakis, A & Hickey-Friedman, L 2011, ‘Stabilisation of iron artefacts from Kaman-Kalehöyük: a comparison of chemical and environmental methods’, Studies in Conservation, vol. 56, pp. 179–190.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, JP 2010, ‘The field museum archaeological metals project: distributed, in-situ microenvironments for the preservation of unstable archaeological metals using escal barrier film’, in C Riccardelli & C Del Re (eds.) AIC objects specialty group postprints, Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session May 12 and 14, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, Washington DC, vol. 17, pp. 133–146.
   Google Scholar
• Collins, C 1999, ‘Barrier films,’ Conservation Centre, Natural History Museum, London, viewed 25 June 2020, <http://conservation.myspecies.info/sites/conservation.myspecies.info/files/Barrier%20Films%20Notes.pdf>
   Google Scholar
• Cross, P & Odegaard, N 2009, ‘The inherent levels of arsenic and mercury in artefactmaterial’, Collection Forum, vol. 23, no. 1–2, pp. 23–35.
   Google Scholar
• Faithfull, A 6 March 2018, [email protected].
   Google Scholar
• Fellows J, Pattrick, R, Green, D, Dent, A, Lloyd, J & Pearce, C 2011, ‘Use of biogenic and abiotic elemental selenium nanospheres to sequester elemental mercury released from mercury contaminated museum specimens’, Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 189, no. 3, pp. 660–669.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gibson, L, Higgitt, C, Odegaard, N & Rushworth, I 2014, ‘Novel non-invasive sensors for the detection of pesticides on heritage objects’, in J Bridgeland (ed.) ICOM-CC 17th triennial conference preprints, Melbourne, 15–19 September 2014, The International Council of Museums, Paris, pp. 1–7.
   Google Scholar
• Goodall, RA, Hackin, D, Ladas, N & McCubbin, M 2013, ‘Profiling hazardous substances in the museum Victoria state collection’, Australian institute for conservation of cultural material national conference proceedings, Adelaide 23–25 October
   Google Scholar
• Guggenheimer, S & Thickett, D 2008, ‘Investigation into the potential of low-oxygen storage for freshly excavated iron artefacts: fundamental research using the revolutionary preservation system (RP-system™)’, Beiträge zur Erhaltung von Kunst- und Kulturgut, vol. 1, pp. 75–86.
   Google Scholar
• Hale, L, Hawks, C & Makos, K 2018, ‘Mitigation of mercury contamination in an ore collection’, Poster presented to 2018 SPNCH + TDWG conference, Collections Data in an Unstable World, The Otago Museum and the University of Otago, Dunedin, 25 August to 1 September 2018.
   Google Scholar
• Havermans, J, Dekker, R & Sportel, R 2015, ‘The effect of mercuric chloride treatment as biocide for herbaria on the indoor air quality’, Heritage Science, vol. 3, no. 39, pp. 1–8.
   Google Scholar
• Hawks, C & Bell, D 1999, ‘Removal of stains caused by mercuric chloride treatments from herbarium sheet labels’, in J Bridgeland & J Brown (eds.) ICOM-CC 12th triennial conference preprints, Lyon, 29 August to 3 September 1999, vol. 2, James & James, London, pp. 723–727.
   Google Scholar
• Hawks, C, Makos, K, Bell, D, Wambach, PF & Burroughs, GE 2004, ‘An inexpensive method to test for mercury vapor in herbarium cabinets’, Taxon, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 783–790.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hawks, C, McCann, M, Makos, K, Goldberg, L, Hinkamp, D, Ertel, DJ & Silence, P (eds.) 2011, Health and safety for museum professionals, SPNHC, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Hendry, D 1999, ‘Vertebrates’, in D Carter & A Walker (eds.) Care and conservation of natural history collections, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, pp. 1–36.
   Google Scholar
• Huber, ML, Laesecke, A & Friend, DG 2006, The vapor pressure of mercury, NISTIR 6643, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, Technology Administration, Boulder.
   Google Scholar
• Huttenloch, P, Roehl, KE & Czurda, K 2003, ‘Use of copper shavings to remove mercury from contaminated groundwater or wastewater by amalgamation’, Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 37, pp. 4269–4273.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jerome J405 Mercury vapor analyzer user manual, 2013, Arizona Instrument LLC, Chandler, AZ, USA.
   Google Scholar
• Kerfoota, WC, Urban, NR, McDonald, CP, Rossmann, R & Zhang, H 2016, ‘Legacy mercury releases during copper mining near Lake Superior’, Journal of Great Lakes Research, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 50–61.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klein, C & Dutrow, B 2008, The 23rd edition of the manual of mineral science: (after James D. Dana), Wiley, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Marcotte, S, Estal, L, Minchin, S, Leboucher, S & Le Meur, S 2017, ‘Monitoring of lead, arsenic and mercury in the indoor air and settled dust in the natural history museum of rouen (France)’, Atmospheric Pollution Research, vol. 8, pp. 483–489.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mathais, C, Ramsdale, K & Nixon, D 2004 ‘Saving archaeological iron using the revolutionary preservation System’, in Proceedings of metal 2004, Canberra ACT, 4–8 October 2004, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, pp. 29–42.
   Google Scholar
• McPhail, D, Lam, E & Doyle, A 2003, ‘The heat sealing of escal barrier films’, The Conservator, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 107–116.
   Google Scholar
• Park, J & Zheng, W 2012, ‘Human exposure and health effects of inorganic and elemental mercury’, Journal of Preventative Medicine and Public Health, vol. 45, pp. 344–352.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Purewal, V 2001, ‘The identification of four persistent and hazardous residues present on historic plant collections housed within the National museum and galleries of Wales’, Collection Forum, vol. 16, no. 1–2, pp. 77–86.
   Google Scholar
• Shugar, AN & Sirois, PJ 2012, ‘Handheld XRF use in the identification of heavy metal pesticides in ethnographic collections’, in A Shugar & J Mass (eds.) Studies in Archaeological Sciences, Leuven University Press, Leuven, pp. 312–348.
   Google Scholar
• Strahan, D & Tsukado, M 2016, ‘Measuring mercury emissions from cinnabar lacquered objects’, Studies in Conservation, vol. 61, no. sup. 3, pp. 166–172.
   Google Scholar
• Suthard, JG 1948, ‘Treatment of moulds and bacteria on egg collections’, The Oologist’s Record, September 1948, pp. 45–47.
   Google Scholar
• Waller, R, Andrew, K & Tétreault, J 2000, ‘Survey of gaseous pollutant concentration distributions in mineral collections’, Collection Forum, vol. 14, no. 1–2, pp. 1–32.
   Google Scholar