Notice catalographique « Resins : ancient and modern : pre-prints of the SSCR's 2nd resins conference held at the department of zoology, university of Aberdeen »

• Wright, Margot M.
• Townsend, Joyce (Joyce H.)
• Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration

CONTENTS
Resins: useful but a problem?
C. V. Horie 1
Adhesives projects at the Canadian Conservation Institute.
Jane L. Down 4
The effects of pigments and other additives on the curing and service performance of filling and retouching media. 1. Initial investigations on epoxide resins.
Barry Cope, Audrey Marthews & Norma Garrington 13
Evaluating adhesives for repairing poly(methylmethacrylate) objects and sculpture: changes in tensile strength and colour after accelerated ageing.
Don Sale 17
Plastics: modern resins with ageing problems.
Yvonne Shashoua & Clare Ward 33
Secret sabotage: reassessing the role of museum plastics display and storage.
Julia Fenn 38
An investigation into the composition of botanical wax models with a view to their conservation.
Victoria J Purewal 42
The problem of common solubility parameters: the removal of natural rubber adhesive residues from a painted silk banner.
Allison Chester & Dinah Eastop 47
Thermal studies on ancient and modern rubber:
environmental information contained in crystallised rubber.
Mary T. Baker 53
Conservation of natural resins from Marind-anim.
1. Investigation and analysis.
Karen Coote & George Denes 57
Microscopy for analysis of resin samples.
Melvin J Wachowiak, Jr 64
Mass spectrometry of resinous compounds from paintings: characterisation of dammar and naturally aged dammar varnish by DTMS and HPLC/GCMS.
Gisela A. van der Doelen & Jaap J Boon 70
The analysis of synthetic resins found in twentieth century paint media.
Tom Learner 76
Plasticised and stabilised cyclohexanone varnishes.
Jerzy Ciabach 85
The past and future history of natural resins as coating materials.
Donald C. Williams 88
Conservation of natural resins from Marind-anim.
2: Conservation.
aren Coote & George Denes 93
Chemical characterisation of resins used by native Americans in the southwestern Great Basin, USA.
Carl Heron, Andrew Fox & Mark Q. Sutton 100
Lifetime predictions for polyurethane-based recording media binders: determination of the "shelf-life" of videotape collections.
Mary T Baker 106
Pitch, tar, bitumen and asphalt? A sticky problem.
Robert E. Child 111

• Gums and resins
• Art - Conservation and restoration
• Art - Conservation et restauration