On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Anne Douglas wrote:

> Speaking as someone who has worked exclusively in art museums, could
> someone please explain *why* such a colony would be established in the
> first place?  Thanks and Merry Christmas!

     The bugs clean meat and tissues from the bones of specimens without
damaging skeletal material the way boiling and chemical agents do.

      Hank Burchard * [log in to unmask] * Washington DC