Gossip meeting “Stained sections”
Tuesday 13th May 2025
This gossip meeting was held in the Angela Marmont Centre in the Natural History Museum in London. The participants gave brief introductions to the slides that they had brought, and then we spent the afternoon discussing them and examining them under the Museums Leica EZ4 stereo and Leica DM750 compound microscopes.
Nigel Ashby
Nigel Ashby’s slides
Joan Bingley
Joan Bingley’s slide
Phil Greaves
Phil Greaves’ exhibit
Graham Matthews
Graham Matthews’ slide set
Graham Matthews’ slides
Jacky McPherson
Jacky McPherson’s brain sections
Nigel Williams
Nigel Williams’ slides
Alan Wood brought some slides that he had acquired at Club meetings since joining the Quekett in 2011, including ones made by Quekett members Eric Impey, Ernie Ives, Colin Kirk, Eric Marson (NBS), Mike Smith and John Wells (Biosil), some axolotl sections described as “probably by Robin Wacker”, and some commercial slides sold by Gerrard and Philip Harris. He also brought some histology slides from Lambeth Hospital that he bought from Clarkson’s in High Holborn in 1963 when he was looking for his first microscope.
Alan Wood’s slides
Stained sections of plants
Stained sections of vertebrates
Various stained sections
Report and most photographs by Alan Wood