Hello, Ecologgers: I am one of those untouchable unaffiliated -- i.e. I am neither a current student nor employee of any institution equipped with a lab. But I still do science to the best of my ability given that constraint. My current project concerns identifying small insect specimens, and I have found my hand lens inadequate to the job. But dissecting scopes, even on eBay, are quite expensive for someone like me who lacks grant money and so must pay out of my own funds. Is there any way to gain temporary access to an established lab with its own dissecting scopes, if not for free, then for less money than buying my own scope would be? Thank you. Jason Hernandez
