Formula for long term storage of specimens to retain color from Histonet's   Search engine .

ASHI Home Inspections A site on sick building syndrome this is their page of slide mountants including glycerin jelly and how to make it.

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology   (Alternative site ) has some interesting things on algae and the main thing that interests me is the media recipes from the CCAO Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa.

Botany professor David T. Web Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii page links to lab notes, lecture notes and many resources on botany and plant microtechnique.

Recipes from the Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah. It has very good directions for making fixatives stains and such and has safety precautions.

Kansas State's histology page with a world of images of tissue by Milton Wolf & Mark Scarbrough on their Histo Web page.

Histology Atlas Database of labeled tissue images hosted by Deltagen .

University of Arizona's Experimental Pathology Core: Microscopy & Imaging Resources Histology page. They have a good collection of links on technique and procedures by Douglas W. Cromey, M.S.

University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital; an online book the Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy
by Ronald A. Bergman, Ph.D., Adel K. Afifi, M.D., Paul M. Heidger, Jr., Ph.D.

Histology Glossary produced by Thomas George, MD & Fawad Ahmed
at the University of Florida in the Histology Tutorial   by Thomas George, MD & Wojciech Pawlina, MD . 

Recipes from the University of Queensland. Click on Proceed if the staff page shows up.

The Stains File   copyrighted by Bryan Llewellyn.

Dartmouth College's Chemlab web page. It has basic lab procedures and some experiments.

Pet and animal medications and their manufactures.

Expert Secrets for Preserving Plants By Shawn Carlson, Amateur Scientist,  Scientific American.

Standard methods for assessment of soil biodiversity and land use   CGIAR publication by Mike Swift & David Bignell

Parasitology/Mycology Laboratory Manual From Austin Community College, Austin Texas.

Nematode collection , fixation and mounting procedures from  University of California at Davis.

Parasitology , Biology 625 LABORATORY MANUAL from Kansas State.

USDA's manual for collecting and preserving insects and mites . It loads slowly but it's worth it.

A collection of discussions on mounting media from the Archives of Acarology List.

Instructions on mounting Pollen for SEM from Dartmouth College's Rippel Electon Microscope Facility.

A search on http://www.biotech.ufl.edu that brought up a method of making Ralph knifes from glass slides. Search for Ralph knife.10/14/02