Helllooo...anybody out there? It seems the summer doldrums have set in. You all are awfully quiet. Anybody have a good joke to share? Summer is a great time...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 13, 1999 7:50 pm
... I am TDY in Vancouver BC playing with my open university microscope. I made crossed polarizer for it last night and I am planing on making a dark field...
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Phil Peterson
ppeters@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 13, 1999 9:45 pm
Well hello again, Gordon. What is an "open university microscope" ? Something suited for traveling? I remember seeing your email address when we were bidding...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 13, 1999 10:19 pm
Phil, Well he didn't have one at my price:{ I haven't been looking at much just working on the scope mostly. It is a plastic McAurther style scope. The Optics...
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xdragonfly@xxxxx.xxx
Jun 13, 1999 10:26 pm
Hello all, I'm here as well. Just preoccupied with nature photography which I do quite a lot of during the warmer months. Microscopy is my way of bringing...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 14, 1999 4:43 am
My darkfield attachment for my open university scope worked out well. I cut a hole in a piece of flexible magnet slightly larger than the diameter of the light...
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Hansen-Hill
hh1177@...
Jun 19, 1999 8:31 pm
About 4 years ago I studied plant pathology at Massey University. We had a sampling of electron microscopy (still okay for some virus ID), but the state of the...
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Phil Peterson
ppeters@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 20, 1999 12:53 am
Norah, I welcome you and our other new members to the group. We have a diverse membership including those interested in confocal and electron microscopy. ...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 19, 1999 2:25 pm
Dear Norah In your plant science did you happen to learn anything about how axillary buds are pinched off the apical meristem. My concern is flat vines in...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 8:44 am
The science journals in which scientists publish their work cost about $100 to $400 per year. Now such journals could be free on the internet. However, the...
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Hansen-Hill
hh1177@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx
Jun 24, 1999 6:19 am
The on-line Genetics Journal is a fantastic idea. One of the reasons I find myself so behind in plant pathology is that I don't have ready, affordable access...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 24, 1999 7:24 am
I beleive that online journals are the comming thing unfortunatly acidema is slow to adopt new technology and the publishing compaines have so much money tied...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 24, 1999 7:25 am
I believe that online journals are the coming thing unfortunately academia is slow to adopt new technology and the publishing companies have so much money tied...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 27, 1999 2:43 am
... Dear Gordon As much as I appreciate onelist.com39;s shared directory, folks who are not members of onelist or members who are not "logged in" will have ...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 25, 1999 6:45 am
Dear Harold, I will be glad to host the journal. We can do it as a web page, a mailing list or both. Unless someone wants to spring for $150 bucks for a name...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 27, 1999 6:50 pm
... Thank you. The chief problem I saw with the archive at onelist is the inability to have an index file which would enable readers to call the article they...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 27, 1999 6:50 pm
... Thank you. The chief problem I saw with the archive at onelist is the inability to have an index file which would enable readers to call the article they...
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Phil Peterson
ppeters@xxxx.xxxx
Jul 12, 1999 9:30 pm
Enjoy! Regards, Phil ... From: Dave Walker <dave@...> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:41 PM Subject: July Micscape on-line...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 11, 1999 9:02 pm
I have been wondering for a long time whether one could build a camera for microscope or other uses by purching one of the CCD or other devices from a surplus...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 13, 1999 12:35 am
Harrold, It should work fine since there no optics involved. The only real problem is the size of the arrays are so small that a 50mm lens acts like a 300mm...
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Yvan Lindekens
yvan.lindekens@xxxxxx...
Jul 18, 1999 11:44 am
Hi all, I have an older (1991) stock of object slides from a German brand ("Assitent, ELKA slides, cleaned, with frosted stripe on both sides, no. 2406"). ...
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Yvan Lindekens
yvan.lindekens@xxxxxx...
Jul 18, 1999 3:42 pm
Somebody on this list asked some time ago recipes for fixatives without formalin. Due to a crash of my HD I lost alle messages. If that man could contact me...
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Yvan Lindekens
yvan.lindekens@xxxxxx...
Jul 18, 1999 3:46 pm
hi all, Photomicrography in reflected light, using a regular microscope for biological work in transmitted light, isn't all that difficult, at least not at low...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 26, 1999 4:44 am
To: Pumpkins cc: Microscope SHOULD PUMPKINS BE POLLINATED AT SUNSET? Twenty minutes before sunset tonite, I picked a typical male Atlantic Giant pumpkin flower...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 26, 1999 3:29 am
Harold, It is also common to emasculate flowers of some Ag crops to cross pollinate them. After emasculation a paper bag is tied over the bloom to prevent...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 26, 1999 6:26 am
... Plant breeding has been my main life's work (Corn and small fruit). My letter was about pumpkins, because I was trying to determine the inheritance of Tan...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
Jul 27, 1999 12:08 am
Harold, I a sorry to hear that you are loosing a year on your pumpkin program. It won't help this year but if you are not going to eat the pumpkins you might...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 26, 1999 1:43 pm
... I have been around temik but am uncertain about its toxicity and would not want to use it. I am more interested in injecting Bt crystals and I wonder about...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 27, 1999 2:03 am
... ============== Some fellow in California planted watermellons on some failed cotton ground that had Temic applied to it and he killed a few people with his...
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Harold Eddleman Ph.D
indbio@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jul 26, 1999 2:33 pm
I am glad Brad Walters told us about the failure of Admire to kill borers, else I might have wasted money on Admire. Gordon Couger just told me the following...