Jellyfish repair
Simon Moore repairing a Rhizostome jellyfish with a dropped tentacle and torn umbrella.
Simon was asked by Louise
Bacon of the Horniman Museum in Greater SE London to repair a jellyfish and this was done using a special adhesive
(celloidin) which gels in slightly water-diluted alcohol
(in which the jellyfish was preserved). The tentacle was glued back and the tear in the umbrella or bell
of the jellyfish was gap-filled using a more concentrated version of the same reagent and using a watch
glass as a support and to provide the correct curvature.
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