[NHCOLL-L:833] Re: thread for herp tags

[Gary Casper]

We use Aunt Lydia's 100% Mercerized Cotton Crochet, white (Coats and Clark, 
Greenville, SC 29615), which we buy locally at a five and dime store.

- Gary Casper

At 10:49 AM 1/10/2001 -0600, Jessica Rosales wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Any recommendations for cotton thread used for tying tags onto 
>herps?  I've tried unsuccessfully to get samples from Coats American 
>several times.   We tried using DMC Cebelia but found it to unravel too 
>much.  Any other suggestions?
>
>Thank you,
>
>-Jess
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jessica Rosales
>Collections Manager
>Texas Natural History Collections, Texas Memorial Museum
>University of Texas at Austin
>PRC 176 / R4000
>10100 Burnet Road, Austin TX  78758
>512.471.8845 voice
>512.471.9775 fax
>

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Gary S. Casper
Collections Manager, Herpetology & Ichthyology, Milwaukee Public Museum
     http://www.mpm.edu/collect/garyc.html
Co-Chair, Midwest Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
     http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/herp/PARC/pmwhome.html
Associate Coordinator, US Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force
     http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/herp/Daptf/daptf.html
Wisconsin Herpetology Homepage
     http://www.mpm.edu/collect/vertzo/herp/atlas/welcome.html
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please direct correspondence for Gary S. Casper to:
Vertebrate Zoology Section, Milwaukee Public Museum
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