microscopes

[Robin Leech]

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Robin Leech
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Noyes" <jsn at NHM.AC.UK>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:50 AM
Subject: Re: microscopes


> On the off-chance - does anyone know the whereabouts of a post 1970 Leitz
> dissecting microscope which is available for purchase? I have been trying
> to find one for years without success.
>
> John
>
> At 09:51 AM 2/16/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I don't know the Meiji name, but I have been an Olympus fan for many
years
> >and presently own four of their scopes--two compound research scopes with
> >Nomarski and two topflight dissecting scopes.
> >
> >Olympus are also much less expensive than the "Caddilacs" and "Lincolns"
of
> >the field, but as far as I can tell are optically and mechanically on a
par
> >with them.
> >
> >The cost of my four Olympus scopes probably would have purchase one high
> >end research compound scope from Nikon, Leitz, et al.
> >
> >
> >Bill Shear
> >Department of Biology
> >Hampden-Sydney College
> >Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> >(804)223-6172
> >FAX (804)223-6374
> >email<wshear at email.hsc.edu>
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> >Opiliones at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/opiliones
> >Myriapod at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/myriapod
> >
> >This month's quote: "Yours is the jaded logic of Naderism: if it ain't
> >fixed, break it." --Thomas Talbot
> >
> >
>
> John S. Noyes, Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell
> Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, UK
>
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>
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