Contents of recent Journal issues
The contents of some recent issues of the Quekett Journal of Microscopy are shown below.
Winter 2025 – Volume 45 Part 2
Editorial.
Francesco Andrietti: The rotifer ‘wheels’: reality or illusion? Leeuwenhoek 1702 to Dujardin 1841.
Jorge H. Aigla: Imaginis microscopiorum: some postal stamps related to the microscope.
Fay Newbery: Fun with micro-fungi.
Daniel Kile: Cross Sections of Microscope Optics: Objectives and Eyepieces.
Andrew Chandler-Grevatt: Moss Safari: a gateway to microscopy?
David N Furness: Scanning electron microscopy of the intracellular structure of animal cells.
Howard J. Swatland: Experiments with a Light Microscope Scanning Stage.
John R. Fletcher: An Early Microscope with components by H. Powell and A. Ross. Part I: The stand.
John R. Fletcher: An Early Microscope with components by H. Powell and A. Ross. Part II. Two Ross Objectives.
Summer 2025 – Volume 45 Part 1
Editorial.
Jorge H. Aigla and Sureena Pohsa Aigla: Ectopic melanophores in an amphibian.
Franceso Andrietti: Henry Baker’s ‘Employment for the Microscope’ and the discovery of Lacrymaria olor.
Mark Berry: Behavioural characteristics of the wingless barkfly Cerobasis guestfalica (Kolbe) (Psocoptera, Trogiidae) on in vitro samples of mixed lichen: an observational study.
Richard Gill and Aoife Cantwell-Jones: Bee tongues: a dissection protocol and method for measuring morphological dimensions.
Graham Carlisle: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) and his Smith and Beck No. 2404.
David N. Furness: Behavioural and morphological observations on a small sample of Acineta tuberosa Ehrenberg (Ciliata, Suctoria) from Colwyn Bay, North Wales, UK.
Philip Greaves: Defects in used microscope objectives.
Juriaan A. de Groot: A much-travelled microscope by Andrew Ross (ca. 1842) revisited.
Terence Hope: The gain in the brain lies mainly in the stain – Second Presidential Address.
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Winter 2024 – Volume 44 Part 8
Editorial.
Philip M. Greaves: The Freshwater Biology Notebooks of Eric Hollowday.
Daniel Kile: A Selection of Oriented Crystal Preparations Useful for Teaching Optical Fundamentals.
John Evans and Jason Demien: Leeuwenhoek Meets 3D Printing.
Jonathan M. Crowther: Realgar mounted slides for the imaging of diatoms
Chris J.R. Thomas : Hydrated Pollen Grain Density determined using Sucrose Gradients
Deborah R. Oppenheim and Steve Limburn: A study of Odontotropis carinata Grunow 1884 from the Island of Mors,
Zaineb Henderson: The dinoflagellates: A review
Richard J. Gill and Aoife Cantwell-Jones: ArcticBuzz: revealing climate change impacts on plant-pollinator dynamics (Interim report).
Obituary: John Gustav Delly (1934-2024)
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Notes for authors
Summer 2024 – Volume 44 Part 7
Editorial
Jorge H. Aigla: Corrigenda
Jonathan Crowther: Dark ground condenser using an Axicon lens
Jorge H. Aigla: A note on mixing microscope components.
Martin Parnham: Initial observations of the effect of electric fields on ciliary motion in Paramecium and Stylonychia.
John R. Fletcher: Stanhope magnifiers and souvenirs.
Isabel S. Magalhaes and colleagues: Living on the edge: parasite communities of three-spined stickleback fish populations at the southernmost limit of the species’ distribution.
Terence Hope: Going Dutch (Presidential lecture)
Obituaries:
Brian Darnton (1935-2024)
Ernest Trice (1927-2023)
David Brian Williamson
(1928-2023)
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Winter 2023 – Volume 44 Part 6
Editorial
Aydin Örstan: Bdelloid rotifers in ephemeral rock pools: an ecological introduction
Michael T. Tracy: The microscope purchases of John Goodsir (1814–1867)
Jorge H. Aigla, M.D.: A further note on blood vessel branching
Jonathan Crowther: Metal and metal oxide coatings for the imaging of diatoms
Zaineb Henderson: Irene Manton and Sheina Marshall: Two remarkable women microscopists
Book review: Stanhopes – A Collectors’ Guide – Jean Scott
Book review: The Freshwater Microscopist Part 6 – Tony Pattinson
Summer 2023 – Volume 44 Part 5
Editorial
Lucia Hudson, Aoife Cantwell-Jones, Johan Svedin, Abdullah M. R. Al-Hayali, Keith Larson & Richard J. Gill: Using microscopy to zoom into Arctic plant-bumblebee networks: an individual- and trait-based perspective
Paul D. Adanick: A survey of commonly used leaf epidermal imprint techniques and two improved methods
Philip M. Greaves & Brian Matsumoto: The Leitz Heine phase contrast system
Jonathan Crowther: Imaging in the UV with a Watson Quartz Cassegrain dark ground condenser
Jorge H. Aigla: Shapes, not forms
Owen Bequest charitable grants
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