You may be interested in reviewing Teaching Plant Anatomy Through Creative Laboratory Exercises" by R. Larry Peterson, Carol A Peterson and Lewis H Melville. This book came out last week and is published by National Research Council, Research Press.

http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/books/books/9780660197982.html

If you would like a review copy please contact me at:

Gerry Génier
Marketing Officer
CISTI/NRC Research Press
1200 Montreal Rd.
M-55 Rm 157
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6
(613)993-1213
gerry.genier@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

I use an all in one by Eppendorff (Biophotomer) that is a total
workhorse and does all the DNA, RNA and protein assays. As a lab
manager for 10 years I can say this is the most used item in the lab
and yet has never broke once. You can get it from Fisher Scientific
Education section for a decent discount. it lists at $4,585. but i
paid $3,500 for a new one. http://www.fishersci.com/wps/portal/
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Julia

Julia E. Sable
Lab Manager
Sheetz Lab
Columbia University
Dept. of Biological Sciences
(646) 283 4421
js1719@columbia.edu

On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Jon Greenberg wrote:

Please pardon the cross-posting.

Can anyone suggest a UV-visible-IR spectrophotometer that could be within the budget of a high school science department? I have no idea how much such things cost nowadays.

Many thanks.

Jon Greenberg
Sci_educ@yahoo.com

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I agree totally with everything that has been said already but I feel bound
to add the 1000 acres of the Moscow Botanic Garden (more for its outstanding
science than for its size) the Australian National Botanic Garden in
Canberra and (in the category of "see Naples and die") invite wonder at the
Morton Bay Figs in the Adelaide Botanic Garden which was established almost
as soon, by the first British settlers, as the first pub and the first
cricket ground. What a wonderful order of priorities.

University of Sheffield, UK.
http://www.oxygraphics.co.uk/

1/7/08 18:04, "plant-ed-request@oat.bio.indiana.edu"
oat.bio.indiana.edu> wrote: