Publications of the Staff 

 of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and Its 

 Subsidiaries in Fiscal 

 Year 1995 



Sciences 



Conservation Analytical Laboratory 



Alexander, Ingrid C. "Technical Studies and rhe Field of 

 Conservation." Study Series, June, 1995, 17-18. 



Baker, Mary T. "Ancient Mexican Rubber Artifacts and 



Modern American Spacesuits: Studies in Crystallization and 

 Oxidation." Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV. edited 

 by Pamela B. Vandiver, J. R. Druzik, J.L.G. Madrid, I. C. 

 Freestone, G. S. Wheeler, pp. 223-232 Materials Research 

 Society Symposium Proceedings Series 352 Pittsburgh: 

 Materials Research Society, 1995. 



. "Conservation Issues for Modern Materials." In 



Preserving the Recent Past, edited by D. Slaton and R. A. 

 Shiffer, pp. IV/n-IV/18 Washington, DC: Historic 

 Preservation Education Foundation, 1995. 



. "Lifetime Predictions for Polyurethane-Based 



Recording Media Binders: Determination of the 'Shelf-Life' 

 of Videotape Collections." In Resins: Ancient and Modern. 

 edited by M. M. Wright and J. H. Townsend, pp. 106—110 

 Edinburgh: The Scottish Society for Conservation and 

 Restoration, 1995. 

 . "Thermal Studies on Ancient and Modern Rubber: 



Environmental Information Contained in Crystallised 

 Rubber." In Resins: Ancient and Modern, edited by M. M. 

 Wright and J. H. Townsend, pp. 53—56 Edinburgh: The 

 Scottish Society for Conservation and Restoration, 1995. 

 Ballard, Mary W. "Mechanical Properties: Preview and 

 Review," Textile Conservation Neusletter, no. 28 (Spring, 

 1995): 14-28. 



Beaubien, Harriet F. '"Low Tech' Methods for Characterizing 

 Materials in the Field." Materials Issues in Art and 

 Archaeology IV. edited by Pamela B. Vandiver, J. R. Druzik, 

 J.L.G. Madrid, I. C. Freestone, G. S. Wheeler, pp. 641-652 

 Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series 

 352 Pittsburgh: Materials Research Society, 1995. 



. Summaries of "Discussion #1," "Discussion #2" and 



"Discussion #3." In Loss Compensation: Technical and 

 Philosophical Issues, compiled by Ellen Pearlstein and 

 Michele Manncola, Proceedings of the Objects Specialty 

 Group Session, 10 June 1994, 22nd Annual Meeting, 

 Nashville, TN, Washington, D.C.: American Institute fot 

 Conservation, 1995, pp. 35—37, 72 and 122. 



Becker, Mary A., P. Willman, and Noreen C. Tuross. "The 

 U.S. First Ladies Gowns: A Biochemical Study of Silk 

 Preservation." Journal of the American Institute for 

 Conservation, 34, 2, 141— 152, 1995. 



Bishop, Ronald L. "Pre-Columbian Pottery: Research in the 

 Maya Region." In Archaeometry of Pre-Columbian Sites and 

 Artifacts, edited by D. A. Scott and P. Meyers, Los Angeles: 

 The Getty Conservation Institute, 1994, pp. 15-55. 



. "Analisis de composicion de la ceramica en el sur de 



America Central." Vinculos. (Costa Rica), 18(1-2), 19(1-2), 

 pp. 9-30. 



Bishop, Ronald L., and Marilyn P. Beaudry. "Appendix B, 

 Chemical Compositional Analysis of Southeastern Maya 

 Ceramics." In The Copan Residential Zone, by G. R. Willey, 

 R. M. Leventhal, A. A. Demarest, and W. L. Fash, Jr. 

 Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

 Ethnology, vol. 80. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1994, 

 pp. 407-444. 



Bocherens, H., M. Fogel, Noreen C. Tuross, and M. Zeder. 

 "Preservation of Trophic Structure and Climatic 

 Information Through Signatures in Fossil Mammals from a 

 Pleistocene Cave in Southern England," Journal of 

 Archaeological Science. 22, 2, 327—345, 1995. 



Butterfield, Dale, and Pamela B. Vandiver. "Microdots as a 

 Means of Marking and Tracking Artifacts." In Materials 

 Issues in Art and Archaeology IV edited by Pamela B. 

 Vandiver, J. R. Druzik, J.L.G. Madrid, I. C. Freestone, 

 G. S. Wheeler, pp. 181-186 Materials Research Society 

 Symposium Proceedings Series 352 Pittsburgh: Materials 

 Research Society, 1995. 



Crane, Brian D., M.James Blackman, and Pamela B. 

 Vandiver. "Continuity, Adaptation and Resistance: The 

 Cultural Contexts of the Manufacture, Distribution, and 

 Use of African-American Pottery in Eighteenth Century 

 Charleston, South Carolina." In Materials Issues in Art and 

 Archaeology IV edited by Pamela B. Vandiver, J. R. Druzik, 

 J.L.G. Madrid, I. C. Freestone, G. S. Wheeler, pp. 539-552 

 Matenals Research Society Symposium Proceedings Series 

 352 Pittsburgh: Materials Research Society, 1995. 



Dunsmuir, J. H., Pamela B. Vandiver, R. R. Chianelli, 

 H. W Deckman, J. H. Hardenbergh. "X-Ray 

 Microtomography of Ceramic Artifacts." In Materials Issues 



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