On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Richard Sullivan wrote:
>
> Sorry I didn't save the formula but I did look up salicylic acid in the
> Spectrum catalog. Reagent grade is $19.45 per 125 gm and $49./00 per 500
> gm. No prescription necessary. It's absurd, I know, but one can buy through
> chemical supply houses chemicals without a prescription as long as they are
> not a controlled substance then you need a DEA permit. One can by medical
> grade (copper clad) ether without a prescription (very popular at Victorian
> era parties!) through your chemical supply house but not at the pharmacy.
According to my calculations I only paid twice as much as Spectrum
charges, which may be OK because I'll never do it again if I can't find
the formula (& shipping would probably have brought the catalog price to
the same level). The part that will be VERY costly, however, will be
spending the rest of my life searching for the missing formula....:- (
Most civilians, by the way, can't buy from most chemical houses unless
through an institution, like their school (so forget those ether parties,
no one would do that at school).
> More about Bath as soon as I can catch up around here. I'm going to put up
> a bunch of snaps on my web page and I am hoping to get Richard Morris's
> Calotypes of the massed alt-photoists in scanned form from England soon.
I wonder if I'm the only person who missed this "PS" on first reading ..
I'm sure I've missed others entirely, because when there's a space after
the sign-off line you probably don't see it and unless you're doing
arithmetic on the % of document remaining have no particular reason to
look. Perhaps some screens show more, or all, of the email at once, but
it's still probably a good idea to put a PS *before* the signoff.
Judy