What we did today in the SPA (11 & 18 July 2013)
Today in V Factor we looked at some samples from 1936 from Baffin Island in Canada - way up north! Some people from Spain (we think) want to have a sample of this - we do not know exactly for what purpose, but the Museum often has requests for samples. We have been told that the people want this diatom sample so that they can do scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the diatoms. To ensure the samples we send out contain diatoms we first looked at the samples under the light microscope (it would have been much better if we had a light microscope with a TV camera attachment so the public