“While teaching at Elon and working towards the doctorate at Duke, Powell perceived the need for a biological supply house that could provide schools and colleges with their laboratory specimens. At the time, only two other businesses in the United States supplied specimens for classroom use — teachers were expected to collect their own protozoan, […]
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New in the collection: Carolina Biological Supply blotter
Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged carolina biological supply co, thomas edward powell jr. on September 9, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Damien Hirst window-shopped at Carolina Biological
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged 3:am magazine, burlington nc, carolina biological supply co, charles thomson, damien hirst, john lekay on August 2, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“In 1992, [Damien] Hirst moved to New York, where he met John LeKay, a 31-year-old British artist…. “Hirst mentioned that he was looking for a source of butterflies, and LeKay gave him a spare copy of the Carolina Biological Supply Co. Science catalogue, which he had been using as a source of ideas. They reached […]
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