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MANY microscopists must have had occasion to use the highly refractive gum-styrax as a medium for mounting. The genus Styrax is, I believe, native in Western Asia and Asia Minor, but which of the species furnishes the gum, or how the gum is collected and prepared, I do not know and should be glad if any of the readers of NATURE could supply information on these points.
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MALLOCK, A. Refractive Index of Gums and a Simple Method of determining Refractive Indices. Nature 113, 159 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113159a0
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