What’s new?

This page gives notices and pointers to what’s new at the Quekett Microscopical Club, being (roughly) the last six months’ events of the Club, some important forthcoming events, and any other items of interest we can’t find a place for elsewhere…
 

Quekex25

Event 11th October 2025

The information and entry form pages for Quekex25, the Club’s Annual Exhibition of Microscopy, are now live and entries are invited.  Clicking the link above will take you to the General Information page from where all the other pages may be accessed.  The Exhibition will be held, as usual, at the Elm Court Community Centre in Potters Bar on Saturday October 11th.

Entries are invited for the usual branches of microscopy, and the closing date for submissions is 5 p.m. on Monday 1st September 2025.  We hope to see a wide range of entries, and certificates will be awarded for those judged to have special merit.  Get your entries in soon, and good luck!

 

Visualisation of chemical solutions under polarised light

Posted 16th June 2025

Carl Burrows has made polarised light preparations of paracetamol, aspirin and other chemicals, and of ocean sand and mammalian hair.

Sodium carbonate under polarised light
Sodium Carbonate

You can see some of his slides here and read some tips for preparation.

 

World Microscope Day 2025

Posted 23rd May 2025

Video presentations of World Microscope Day 2025 are now available for members to view.

 

“Your Go-To Equipment”

Posted 28th April 2025

The video of the Zoom Gossip Meeting on “Your Go-To Equipment” is now available for members to view.  Apologies for the late appearance of this item.

 

Dinoflagellates videos

Posted 7th March 2025

Zena Henderson has written a comprehensive review article for the Winter 2024 issue of the Journal (“The dinoflagellates: a review”, Henderson, Z. (2024) The Quekett Journal of Microscopy44: 597–612.

Dinoflagellates are unicellular organisms that are not only colourful and fascinating, but which play an important role in the ecosystems of marine and freshwater habitats.  These four videos which accompany the article portray the more dynamic aspects of the lives of the dinoflagellates.

The contents of the videos are as follows:

  • Transverse flagella in action.
  • Corkscrew motion of swimming dinoflagellates.
  • Birefringent nature of dinoflagellate chromosomes.
  • Peduncular feeding mode of certain dinoflagellates.

 

Your Bulletin Needs You!

Posted 10th February 2025

Chris Thomas, Bulletin Editor,  is putting the Spring edition together with the few articles and reports he has to date.  However, he needs more contributions, no matter how large or small – articles, letters, methods, microscopy-related stories, all with any accompanying pictures.
Closing date for contributions is the end of February 2025.  Please send your contributions to either [email protected] or to [email protected].

 

Bulletin Archive

Posted 27th January 2025

In case you’ve lost or loaned out your copy of a past Quekett Bulletin, members can now view a new batch of past issues in .pdf format.  Issues of October 2021 to November 2023 are now available.

 

New Videos

Posted 19th January 2025

Members can now view the videos of the Quekex24 Lectures:

and also: