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100x, 300x, 600x Microscope

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For a rudimentary introduction to what a microscope can do, this Educational Insights toy fills the bill. At 8.25 inches high, it's small and bone simple. You can change the magnification (100x, 300x, or 600x), flip from mirror to battery-powered lamp illumination, and adjust the focus knob (which raises and lowers the combined eyepiece/lens unit). Two slides--plants and animals--are included, with four preparations on each one. If you want to look at something besides goldfish scales and bamboo shoots, there are three glass slides, tweezers, and a plastic dropper for concocting your own preparations (dust bunnies? spider legs?). Although the optics don't approach those of a professional microscope, the price doesn't compare either. And you get a good idea of the differences among levels of magnification. Extra bulb included.



A World of Animals CD-ROM

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Invertebrate Zoology (1)

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Paul A. Meglitsch, Frederick R. Schram
January 1991
Heavyweight textbook

Invertebrate Zoology (2)

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Edward E. Ruppert, Robert D. Barnes
January 1994
Classic textbook now in 6th edition

Nematoda


The nematodes (roundworms) looked at from a university level.


The Crucible of Creation : The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals

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S. Conway Morris, Simon Conway Morris
The Burgess Shale deposits, in western Canada, have joined the Galapagos Islands as a destination of choice for vacationing scientists and fans of evolutionary theory. The fame of these places is in part due to the unique flora and fauna (living or dead) they boast, and in part to the scientists who have described and attempted to explain them. Like Stephen J. Gould's Wonderful Life, this book from Simon Conway Morris, original describer of the fascinating, troubling fossil Hallucigenia, gives an account of the Burgess Shale and the scientists who argue over the tiny remains of once-living creatures. Conway Morris calls the place "the most wonderful fossil deposit in the world," and his emotion is contagious. Beyond describing the creatures that formed the fossils, he speculates about how the Burgess Shale fits in to the story of human evolution.

The Fossils of the Burgess Shale

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Derek E. G. Briggs et al
September 1995
Images of early multicellar organism fossils


The Garden of Ediacara : Discovering the First Complex Life

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Mark A. S. McMenamin
June 1998


Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

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Stephen Jay Gould


Worm Acres Composting Kit

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It's never too early to help save the environment. This kit includes a small, lidded composting bin (10 by 6.5 by 5.25 inches), starter compost bedding, an airflow filter, a water sprayer, a certificate for 250 live earthworms, and an instruction book. Once the worms arrive, they'll burrow into the compost starter and begin eating the melon rinds and apple cores you slip them. The book explains the principles of "vermicomposting" and contains a functional diagram of worm anatomy. Also included in the kit are stickers, vegetable seeds, a small coloring book, and a study guide for experiments. Warning: Open the kit outdoors. There are holes in both the composting bin and in the plastic bag of compost starter. (Ages 6 and older)


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