ASIH 1997 Joint Meetings

The annual SSAR Auction is scheduled for Monday evening, June 30, from 7:30-11:30 at the UW Husky Union Building (HUB). All proceeds from the auction go to support society activities. Members are encouraged to contribute items for the auction; items of value as well as those that lend themselves to humor are welcome. Auction items may be brought directly to the meetings or sent in advance (clearly marked "SSAR Auction") to:

T.W. Pietsch
School of Fisheries
1140 Boat Street
University of Washington
Box 355100
Seattle, WA 98195-5100, USA.

This year we will have a variety of interesting and entertaining items up for auction so plan to join us! We are grateful to the below listed organizations which have already supported the auction with a donation. Please follow the links to their websites to learn more about them and see what else they have to offer.

ORGANIZATION NAME	ADDRESS	ITEM DONATED
Absearch	http://www.absearch.com	a Copeia database
Academic Press	http://www.apnet.com	books
Acorn Naturalists	http://www.acorngroup.com	anuran call CD, book
Afishionado galery	1900 W Nickerson Seattle WA 98119 206-283-5078	a shirt
Andrea Bragg Designs	http://www.well.com/user/abd	T-shirts
AVM Instrument Co., Ltd	http://cccweb.com/avm	telemetry equipment gift certificate
Bad Frog Brewery	http://www.thewild.com/badfrog	Bad Frog t-shirts
Bean Farm	http://www.beanfarm.com	wait and see!
Ben Meadows	http://www.benmeadows.com	a field vest
Bibliomania	http://www.sisna.com/users/herpbooks/Biblio.html	wait and see!
Blue Chameleon Ventures	http://www.cyberstreet.com/loveherp	photo
Bone Clones	http://www.boneclones.com	reproductions of reptile skulls
Bush Herpetological	http://www.pythons.com/bush/bush.html	a reptile cage
Cabela's	http://www.cabelas.com	a print
Captain Toady's Tasty Sauces	206-622-6650	tasty sauces and a shirt
Cold-blooded	619-457-3217	shirts
Copper Creations	http://www.shop-utopia.com/copper/	copper art
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Library of Natural Sounds	http://www.ornith.cornell.edu	frog and toad call CD's
Dagoli Studios	http://www.wie.com/dagoli	T-shirt art
Debbie Orlean	duffy05@ibmnet.com	frog photo, magnets, cards
Desert Doodads	http://www.desertdd.com	wait and see!
Desert Rose	http://www.desertrose.com	jewelry
DIMI Press	http://members.aol.com/dickbook/dimi_press.html	Komodo, the Living Dragon (book)
Earth Dream	http://www.earthdream.com	a turtle puppet
Ecophoto	http://www.vaxxine.com/ecophoto	viper photo
Gallery of Fishes	http://www.tusc.net/~gallery/maingal.html	print and shirt
Gary Larson/Universal Press Syndicate	http://www.uexpress.com	autographed Far Side book
Gecko Records	http://wpmusic.com/Gecko	wait and see!
Gila Monsters (a band)	http://www.rockweb.com/bands/gila-monsters	Gila Monster starter pack
Green's Nature Photography	22116 45th Ave SE Bothell, WA 98201 206-485-0391	a treefrog photo
H. Stevan Logsdon	505-388-4263	frilled lizard necklace
Half Moon Bay Trading Co.	www.halfmoonbaytrading.com	Iguana Red Pepper Sauce
Intiman Theater	http://seattlesquare.com/intiman	tickets
Jamboree Jewelers	http://jamboree.com	frog jewelry
Kool Tie	http://www.kooltie.com	kool ties
Krieger Publishing	http://www.web4u.com/krieger-publishing	wait and see!
Lyon Electric Company	http://www.best.com/~watr/lyon/lyon.html	a reptile den
Megabyte Graphics	http://www.premier1.net/~megabyte	2 shirts
Miller and Weber, Inc.	718-821-7110	cloacal thermometer
Peace Frogs	http://www.peacefrogs.com	clothing
Princeton University Press	http://pup.princeton.edu	books
Puppet Gallery	http://puppetgallery.com	rattlesnake puppet
Ramus Publishing, Inc.	http://petstation.com/repamp.html	wait and see!
Royal Holographic Art Gallery	http://www.islandnet.com/~royal/indexnew.html	chameleon hologram
Salamander (a band)	http://www.sfbands.com/salamander	CD's of their music
Sinauer Associates, Inc.	http://www.sinauer.com	books
Stampola	http://www.stampola.com	herptile rubber stamps
University of California press	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8080/	a book about snakes
University of Oklahoma press	http://www.ou.edu/oupress	a book about garter snakes
University of Texas press	http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/	books
Vin Table	215-628-4668	herp jewelry
Wax & Bing Studios	http://www.pacific.net/~waxbing	box with Pacific Giant Salamander
Whales and Friends catalog	800-234-1022	a frog sprinkler
Zoo Book Sales/Serpents Tales	http://www.zoobooks.com	books

All donations to the SSAR Auction are fully tax deductible under IRS Section(c)(3). If you would like to make a donation, or if you have other questions about the auction, please contact Terry Stevens-Ayers (tsa@u.washington.edu) or Mike Adams (madams@u.washington.edu).