Since when do we need a reason Russ ????  :¬)
		Alex Brown
		Kilmarnock, Scotland.

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From: RUSS ALLISON
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Anniversary - formaldehyde
Date: 28 October 1998 08:20

I just found out formadehyde was - invented? - discovered? in 1859
and produced industrially in 1889 and reported as a fixative in 1893.
So we missed out on a big reason for a party.
Sometimes, life's a bitch!  (is that politically correct?)
More to come on the formaldehyde story in due course.
Russ Allison, Wales