Blotting paper for compound microscope use. - Naturens

24 Oct 2021

Dear All,

     All going well I hope to get back to examining spores of e.g. 
fleshy fungi, mosses etc., under a compound microscope, in a year or so 
but my pad of absorbent paper was either entirely used or has gone missing.

     This was the same pad, I think,  which I bought in the early 50's 
for course work and I can not remember what it was called. It was sold 
as pads, ~4 mm thick, of thin coherent blotting paper nearly as wide as 
a glass slide. And by snipping the wet end off, the same sheet can often 
be used several times.

     It was used mostly to draw a reagent, from one side of a square 
cover slip to the other, without disturbing the spores or other small 
objects being examined.

     Does this ring any bells and if so what were these pads called ?

Dave, Kentville