Dear Conchlers,

I'm forwarding this message from the Vertebrate Paleontologists' list
because you may be better able to answer than they. I will relay your
answers.

Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama

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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Witmer, Larry
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:17 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: cotton batting vendor


Greetings all,

I'm looking for a vendor of cotton batting, specifically the stuff that's
unbleached, coarse & heterogeneous, and comes in a giant roll.  Museums buy
it to put in specimen boxes to cushion delicate fossils.  I want it for
that, too, but I've also found that my most tireless lab assistants---my
dermestid beetles, masters of skeletonization---need it for part of their
life cycle...tho' I'm a little afraid that the more tired lab personnel
might also find that big roll a little too cozy.

I've investigated vendors through fabric and upholstery houses, but come up
empty.  I'm hoping a museum person might be able to just let me know from
whom they buy there batting.

Thanks. --Larry
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Lawrence M. Witmer, PhD
Associate Professor of Anatomy
Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine Life
Science Research Building, Room 123 Ohio University
Athens, Ohio   45701  USA
phone: 740 593 9489; fax: 740 593 2400
email: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
web: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/

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