David's suggestion of Rite in Rain paper is a good one.  Notebooks and
8-1/2 by 11 inch paper can be purchased from Forestry Supplys or Suppliers
in Jackson, Mississippi.  Don't have their address but a web search will
lead you to their web site.

Charlie
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Charlie Sturm, Jr
Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
                     Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
Assistant Professor - Family Medicine

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David Campbell wrote:

> Many permanent and other inks are soluble in ethanol, so be careful if you
> are using something other than water on your specimens.
>
> Rite in the Rain is one company that offers waterproof paper, and I have a
> couple of waterproof field notebooks from Sokkia.  Searching the Web for
> these would probably turn up more information.  Several scientific supply
> catalogs list waterproof paper with field equipment, but it would probably
> be cheaper to find the manufacturer.
>
>
> Dr. David Campbell
> "Old Seashells"
> Department of Geological Sciences
> CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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>
> "He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
> Gold Bug
>