Petri dish be used to observe plant germination, the behavior of very small animals or for other day-to-day laboratory practices such as drying fluids in an oven and carrying or storing samples. Their transparency and flat profile also mean they are commonly used as temporary receptacles for viewing samples, especially liquids, under a low-power microscope. Petri dish A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie Dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cellssuch as bacteriaor small mosses. Modern
Stars of the Lid the duo of McBride and Wiltzie steadily continued with "Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life" in 1996, "The Ballasted Orchestra" in 1997, "Per Aspera Ad Astra" in 1998, and "Avec Laudenum" in 1999, as well as the limited edition EP "Maneuvering the Nocturnal Hum" and a split single with Windsor for the Derby, both in 1998. Stars of the Lid then released their first double album, "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid", in late October 2001. Nearly six years later, the duo released their second double album, "And Their Refinement of the Decline", in April