Arthur,
Sure I will give this message to the people resonsible for our confocal
microscope and to every user in our institut.
Sorry for your objectives. Hope you will get them back (or new ones) soon.

At 12:51 21/06/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>I'm sorry, since this is not really a scientific subject, althougth for us
>it is a question of being able to do our work.
>Tonight, in our institut(es) (one building) objectives and oculars for
>about 100.000 US $ were stolen (maybe more ...). The microscopes include a
>Leica SP MultiPhoton CLSM and also high-end ZEISS microscopes. But they
>also took all they could get from our old microscopes (different brands),
>but ONLY obejtives and oculars.
>Since several of the objectives are infinity corrected and for use with
>high-quality microscopes which are not so widely distributed (expensive
>...), I thought that it might be that some of you get them offered, or that
>somebody knows where this stolen objectives usually are "sold"...
>Our work greatly depends in that objectives. And the universities in
>Germany do NOT have insurances for such cases.
>Therefore I want to please people which get offered such used objectives to
>inform us and to be careful when buying. We at the moment have the police
>here, and are checking which objectives exactly are lacking. Maybe one of
>you can give us some information in future,
>Arthur
>Dr. Arthur Schuessler
>Botanik
>TU-Darmstadt
>Schnittspahnstrasse 10
>D-64287 Darmstadt
>GERMANY
>
>Fax: ++49 6151-166049
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
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