Dear Ecolog-Listers: I am a Research Associate at the Department of Paleobiology of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC). One of my research interests in plant exudates and ambers of the world (will send reprints, if interested), which I pursue in collaboration with Dr. Joseph B. Lambert (Northwestern University). If you ever come across these materials, would you mind sending me a blob or two (at least 100 milligrams) of these materials? Hand collecting and placing the exudate blobs or ambers in a plastic ziplock baggie (with collection data) is fine. If you need baggies, I will be glad to send them your way. Thank you.
Sincerely, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD
