>Thanks again for info again. Glad to be just the channel -- let Carmen
>make the decisions. (Wish I had this kind of authoritative advice about
>the leaky roof!)
>
>One more question (right now): Some sources say to harden the tissue in
>alum, but not which alum... Guess I could look it up, maybe I will, as
>soon as I wake up. But I wonder if anyone has tried glyoxal for the
Here's a free advice that is likely to save you 700 hours of lab work: Take
the sources that recommend hardening pigment tissues in alum. Tear them,
shred them and incinerate them. Pretty pot-boilers don't make good
reference books.
Luis Nadeau
nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www.primenet.com/~dbarto/lnadeau.html