Take for instance the works of Surrealist painter Max Ernst, who often used images from scientific catalogs as inspiration for his work.
Ever wonder why every scientific instrument catalog has about 5000 items just like the one you're looking for?
Only slightly chastened by potential legal action, Star Registry acknowledges in its literature that its list is not a scientific reference catalog.
Take the blender, or "liquid homogenizer," as they're often called in scientific instrument catalogs.
In 2000, an international network of 2,700 scientists began the Census of Marine Life, the most ambitious at- tempt in scientific history to catalog the life dwelling in the world's oceans.
Soluble triglyceride was measured using a commercially available kit (Triglyceride-SL Assay, Pointe Scientific, Canton, MI, Catalog No. T7531) following the manufacturer's protocol.
As a routine part of the research process, voucher specimens should be deposited in an appropriate scientific collection, and catalog numbers reported in publications, Disease studies that lack careful biodiversity documentation are numerous, even in the recent literature.
Briefly, the assays contained 10 µl homogenate and 100 µl reagent and were incubated at 37° for 10 min. Sample absorbance was measured at OD500 and total soluble triglyceride concentrations were determined by comparison with a commercially available standard (Pointe Scientific, Canton, MI, Catalog No. T7532).
In "Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" (St. Martin's Press, 1999), Dr. Bruce Bagemihl, a biologist, catalogs scientific observations of homosexual or transgender behavior in 190 species, but says it has been documented in 450 species.
