UKIC Furniture Section Conference
Pest Attack and Pest Control
      in Organic Materials
Museum of London, 18 November 1996

The conference will explore the sources, control and eradication of pest
attack in organic materials pertaining to furniture.  It will address the
application of control and eradication techniques  available to the
conservation profession.  Toxic eradication methods will be covered briefly,
but emphasis will be given to non-toxic methods that include the use of high
and low temperatures and reduced oxygen environments.

9.00 - 9.30     Registration and Coffee
9.30 - 9.45     Introduction
9.45 -  10.15   David Pinniger (Consultant Entomologist)  - Identification
                of insect pests and damage
10.15 - 10.45   David Horden (Private Restorer) - The particular problems
                encountered in furniture and architectural woodwork
10.45 - 11.15   Roy Thomson (The Leather Conservation Centre) - The effects
                of pest attack on leather
11.15 - 11.45   Valerie Blyth (Senior Textile Conservator, Victoria and
                Albert Museum) -  Textile pest management at the V&A
11.45 - 12.15   Questions
12.30 - 2.00    Lunch
2.00 - 2.30     Robert Child  (Head of Conservation, National Museums and
                Galleries of Wales) - Detection,monitoring and control
2.30 - 3.15     Mark Nicholson  (Thermo Lignum) - Anoxic atmospheres in
                conjunction with heat/humidity
                Dr Werner Rotberg  (Thermo Lignum) - The Thermo Lignum
                controlled heating/constant humidity method
3.15 - 3.45     Tea
3.45 - 4.15     Nick Umney (Assistant Head of Furniture Conservation,
                Victoria and Albert Museum) -  An investigation into
                the use of  low oxygen atmosphere for insect pest control
4.15 - 4.45     Helen Lloyd (The Housekeeper, The National Trust)
5.00 - 5.30     Forum
    There will also be a poster session and "trade fair".
Cost: 35.00   (Student Rate 25.00)      Includes lectures, postprints,
"trade fair" and refreshments (morning coffee, buffet lunch and  afternoon
tea)
To book please send cheques made payable to Pest Conference plus 2
SAE's
to: Lyndsay Piper, Colin Piper,Highfield House,
The Greens,Leafield, Witney, OX8 5NP    Tel: 01993 878593 .


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