[NHCOLL-L:900] Re: mounted specimen preservation

[Stuart Fullerton]

another case of longevity of curators from using those nasty wasty
carcinogenic chemicals in the olden days of ignorance. i probably would
not be here either except for them..  i long for a gentle whiff of carbon
tet and carob disulfide just for old times sake. at least i have managed
to keep the pdb in the bugs here!

> >>  I was brought up, at Ann Arbor, on an
> >>unhealthy mixture of carbon tet and carbon disulfide as a fumigant, and
> >>PDB as a repellent, but understand these are now taboo.  All of us would
>

Stuart M Fullerton ROF, Research Associate in charge of Arthropod
Collections (UCFC), Dept. of Biology, University of Central Florida, PO
Box 162368, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2368, USA. stuartf at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
(407) 823-6540 (no voice mail)  <http://biology.ucf.edu/bugs/>