Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!miamiu!jahayes From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: buying a microscope Message-ID: <90231.145729JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> Date: 19 Aug 90 19:57:29 GMT References: <36242@ut-emx.UUCP> <2381@dover.sps.mot.com> Distribution: sci.bio Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service Lines: 14 I am reminded to post a quick recommendation for a brand-name for those interested in dissecting scopes: Wild (rhymes with "billed"). I, ahem, obtained one from a lab that was being cleaned out and junked at my last school and it is a marvelous little scope; very simple, easy to maintain, and superb optics. I understand that they are not terribly expensive, certainly not in the Zeiss range. Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 voice: 513-529-1679 fax: 513-529-6900 jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. [Fudd's first law of opposition]