Beetles, worms and lice Are destroying historic manuscripts, claims British Library


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UK News
17-09-2001
who: Beetles, worms and lice
what: Are destroying historic manuscripts, claims British Library
where: The British Library, LONDON
when: Yesterday
snippet: Moths have eaten textiles, reports BBC Online, "while silverfish, along with booklice, have devoured a number of 19th-century watercolours. The gelatine on a collection of 100-year-old photographs proved so tasty that silverfish ate the entire archive, leaving behind just the bare paper..." [... more]

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