We get our formaldehyde from VWR a scientific products company at 1-800-932-5000. Scott Walker Alaska Department of Fish and Game Ketchikan Alaska 99901- (907) 225-5195 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Conchologists of America List Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 3:16 PM To: ScottW; [log in to unmask] Subject: Books, Foramlin and Silicone Dear Friends: 1. There were books mentioned I beleive on conch-l, and another several years ago at Jacksonville Shell Show auction, that gave the derivation of species names, their Latin and Greek meanings, something like Derivation of Biological Names or something like that. Can any provide that, or similare book names and authors? 2. Also discussion on Formaldehyde. Anywhere to get formaydehyde and or formalin at a commercial or mail order soruce? The local drug store in Satellite Beach, Florida, where we used to get formalin, is no longer in business. Please any practical sources would be appreciated (not the enjoyable but none too practicable earlier conch-l that one got formaldehyde from the basement of a retired undertaker; nor contact a university, that is not an option here). 3. Another long thread was on the Dow Corning 200 liquid silica, I believe was the brand name for "oiling" shells. Anywhere to purchase that? The "check a well-stocked paint store" from a previous conch-l did not prove successful here. Thank you, Alan Gettleman (And for Marlo Krisberg: from the home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center where veteran U.S. astronaut will launch into space again on October 29): Merritt Island, Florida