Bill, This next bit is likely to see me being ousted by the chemists in this group. I just fail to understand the paranoia about cleaning with Acids in particular the Sulphuric and Potassium

Hi Keith I have his email address and will send this posting to him. I asked if he might join the group this morning and hopefully he'll consider it. I'm not sure about the Amateur Diatomist but

Hi Leszek, Yes, please do add some information that can be included. I have actually been very hesitant to add my own detailed descriptions using strong acids since they can be very dangerous if

Hi Leszek, This is a great offer from Steve. It's also timely as I was trying to contact him, via Savona Books email, to purchase some items from this side of the pond. Do you happen to know how best

Hi Bill I'll add some brief details and pictures on the sulphuric acid step as well if I may as I find that step quite fraught and needing as many precautions as possible. I'll try and get some

Hi I got a note from Steve Gill via the Diatoms Ireland site and which I enclose below. 'I notice that Klaus has posted the details of the Diatom Resources DVDs in the file folder on the yahoo

Hello Charles, Thanks for the kind words. I will try to put together a detailed writeup with pictures this weekend. But let me comment on some of your details. First, you've pretty much got the

Dear Klaus, Thanks for the compliments. I have a great teacher, and we both stand on the shoulders of many giants in the field. Almost all of my methodology is taken from previous workers, including

Hello Bill, I hope the following makes sense, some questions some comments, if not feel free to us a big stick. Your first step is to breakup the diatomite using either the freeze thaw method or you

Hello Bill, If I were to create a scale of 1 to 10 for measureing how clean a fossile diatom sample is after processing Mr. Dailey would be the 10 and me, I would be the 1. Like Klaus I would like to

Bill, Is there any way I could persuade you to give a full account of your cleaning method, yes I know much has been written about this but knowing some of the material you have cleaned is so

Brian, In the file Diatom Resources posted I should have indicated the price as £35.00 for the two DVD plus postage standard for UK variable if you are outside of the UK. Klaus

Brian, I have placed a word document in the file folder for anyone who is interested in reading some good old fashioned but essential papers on Diatoms. It is headed Diatom resources and seems good

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the diatom_forum group. File : /Diatom Resources.doc Uploaded by :

Hello Rob, The function of any condenser is to fill the objective with light. Unless the condenser is able to do this, you will not have the full resolution possible from any objective lens. In

Rob, Your Navicula appears to be N. cryptocephala Kützing. Lange-Bertalot says that this species is often difficult to distinguish from a number of similar species, but comparison of your specimen

Rob, Here are identifications for your two Nitzschia species. The first is Nitzschia amphibia Grunow. It's fairly easy to recognize from the coarse punctation of the striae. I wanted to check all

While pursuing information on the 'Cherryfield diatoms' I was referred to a comprehensive wiki website maintained by Jeff Stone. To our Links folder I have added a link to what seems to be another

Hello Bill, Thank you for more very useful information. This group is so helpful with first-hand/expert hints. I'll be in touch re your kind offer re the nylon mesh. Best wishes, Keith PS. Your

Hello Klaus, Thank you so much for giving so many useful hints in a single post! I know I have to organize a sieving setup to improve upon my diatom seperation procedure... The stackable PVC parts