Articles
This section of the website contains older articles that have been written for the website or the Journal. Some of them are several years old, some of them are recent, but they are all worth a read!
Microscopes and accessories
- Bausch & Lomb Dynazoom, by Aaron Messing
- Cooke, Troughton & Simms M2000, by David Walker
- Greenough’s prism rotator, by Brian Davidson
- Meopta portable microscope, By Tony Saunders-Davies
- Replica Leeuwenhoek microscopes, by Phil Greaves
- Sartory Instruments Ltd – A Very British Enterprise, by Carel Sartory
- Union Auto Illumination inverted microscope, by Graham Pratt
- An unusual Zeiss “jug handle” microscope, by Tony Jarratt
Microscopical techniques
- Centering stops, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- Dark-ground illumination, by Savile Bradbury
- DIY phase contrast, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- The magic of polarised light, by Don Thomson
- Making wax cells for fluid mounts, by Stephen Livermore
- Modifying a microscope for photography, by Chris Algar
- Notes on the cleaning and restoration of modern microscopes, by Spike Walker
- Rheinberg illumination, by Savile Bradbury
Microscopical specimens
- Air sample curiosities, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- British Science Week 2016 (Lichens, Cladocera, Pollen, Reindeer hairs, Sea mouse hairs, Plant fossils, Oak leaf galls, Microfossils, Butterfly tongue, Money)
- British Science Week 2017 (Micrometeorites, Phantom midge, E. D. Evens, Owl pellets, Dung mosses, Spotted-wing drosophila, Petrified wood, Dorset microfossils, Mammoth hair, Pink leaf galls)
- Christmas slides, by Alan Wood
- Dolphin’s teeth, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
- Freshwater sponge gemmule, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- Fun with Cellophane, by Maurice Moss
- Hornfels jewellery, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
- Hosston Formation, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
- Ooids on a tropical island beach, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
- Pediastrum green algae, by Mike Dingley
- Red dust on cars, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- Rocks of Repulse Bay, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
- Scales of Chrysiridia ripheus, by Maurice Moss
- Tardigrades, by Phil Greaves
- Vermetid reefs, by Hugh Mitchell-Tapping
Microscopists in wartime
- The amateur microscopist during wartime, by E. Kelly Maxwell
Other subjects
- Collecting dust mites, by Gary Baird
- Dutch Christmas card, by Henk Mooijman
- Gwyneth Thurgood – micro-artist, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- J. T. Norman’s prize medal, by Tony Dutton
- John Waller medallion, by Phil Greaves
- Krakatoa –the day the world exploded, by Pam Hamer
- Microscopical fever, by Merv Hobden
- Rotifers on tree roots on river banks, by Tony Saunders-Davies
- Tablemats & microscopy, by Pam Hamer
- Taylor water and sediment sampler, by Howard (Chico) Taylor
- Working by oil lamp on a Scottish island, by Fred and Sarah Longrigg