May 2020
(Issue 94 [electronic version only]) of Micro
Miscellanea (PDF
download)
- Letter from the President (MM)
- Greetings from the Editor (JB)
- A couple of Dancers, James Battersby
- Book Review
- Ernst Abbe, Nicole Phillips
- Additional Articles for
download (2023)
Winter 2017 (Issue 93) of Micro Miscellanea
- Letter from the President (MM)
- A note from the new Editor (JB)
- A note from the Treasurer (MG)
- John Benjamin Dancer and the MMS on
the Telly! : Mike Mahon (4 pages)
- John H Nichols Botanical Staining with
Safranin & Alcian Blue,
- An impromptu stem holder: Michael
Gilligan
- A Gallery of images taken with a Zeiss
Polarising microscope: Richard L Howey (5 pages)
- My favourite microscope, Watson System
70 & Hilux: James Battersby (2 pages)
- Lancashire Science Festival: James
Battersby
- The Reichert Stand III of 1892: Brian
Wilkinson (12 pages)
- The Art of the Dry Cell: Nicole
Phillips (4 pages)
- Obituary - Denis Gregory
- Ernst Abbe, Nicole Phillips
Summer 2016
(Issue 92) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Pinnularia alpina (Diatom) CVAC
illumination
- Brunel Stereo Microscope BMSZ
Epi-illuminator LED conversion: Michael Gilligan
(3 pages)
- Dancer's Microphotographic Images of
Dr John Dalton FRS: Stanley Warren (5 pages)
- My favourite slide: Denis Gregory
- Years of innovation - Carl Zeiss
Microscope Objectives 1870-1890: Bob Nuttall (6
pages)
- Mimosa pudica and the Human condition:
Steve Gill
- Pints and Plants in Prestwich: Steve
Gill & Sandy Baker (8 pages)
- Pictures: Pond Life, Callicore anna:
Maurice Moss (2 pages)
- Letters to the Editor: JB Microscope:
Bob Nuttall
Spring 2016
(Issue 91) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Papilio ulysses, the Blue Mountain
butterfly: Maurice Moss
- An example of animal polymorphism
(Snails): Steve Gill & Mike Samworth (10
pages)
- Maurice Wilkins - development of
R&J Beck's mirror objectives ..: Bob Nuttall
(6 pages)
- James Cash 1839-1090: Sandy Baker
& Steve Gill (7 pages)
- Something of a mythical beast, Watson
McArthur Portable Microscope: Michael Gilligan
- A half century of Beck's London series
microscopes: David Henderson (9 pages)
- My favourite sllde :Mike Samworth (2
pages)
Christmas 2015 (Issue 90) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Harry Britten (1870-1954) Master
microscope mounter: Sandy Baker & Steve Gill
(16 pages)
- Charles Baker's 'Nature' microscope:
Bob Nuttall (8 pages)
- Colobura dirce - the Zebra butterfly:
Maurice Moss
- My favourite slide: Alan Bowden
- More Society history through the
popular press (1887 Obituary JB Dancer): Steve
Gill (3 pages)
Summer 2015
(Issue 89) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Hypnotic Diatom
- The Golden Microscopes - Reichert
Stand II of 1897-1908: Brian Wilkinson (10 pages)
- Patent - Optical apparatus for the
microscopical examination of the internal walls of
an opening - Nachet 1974:
- The Continental Model: David Henderson
(4 pages)
- Patent - Illuminating devices for
microscopes - Kohler 1929:
- The Swallow-tailed moth: Maurice Moss
- Some Society history through the
popular press - 1892 Soiree, 1894 Obituary Prof
Marshall - death at Scafell: Steve Gill
- My favourite slide: Stanley Warren
Spring 2015
(Issue 88) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Eclipse 2015: Derek Haworth
- Baker's New BLM 1 series microscopes:
Bob Nuttall (11 pages)
- The Zeiss Standard Junior K: David
Henderson (3 pages)
- John Hughes Bennett's Microscope for
the Anatomical Society of Edinburgh (1833-43) +
Drum microscopes: Stanley Warren (11 pages)
- Testate Amoebae; testacea; Rhizopoda;
Protozoa: David Copestake (4 pages)
- The eighty-eight butterfly: Maurice
Moss
- Patent - To Crack a Nut - 1915 Cobb -
microscope cover glass centering device: Michael
Gilligan
- My favourite slide: Steve Edgar
Christmas 2014
(Issue 87) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Idea leuconoe clara - the tree Nymph:
Maurice Moss
- Extract from Robert Hooke's
Micrographia 1665 - the Ant: 4 pages
- Shieldbugs in the North: Mike Samworth
(10 pages)
- The Baker Series IV Microscope - an
appraisal: David Henderson (8 pages)
- Muonionalusta (meteorite): Alan Bowden
- My favourite slide: Spike Walker
- Book review - Understanding and using
the light microscopy - Chris Thomas & Lewis
Woolnough: Steve Gill
- And now for something completely
different ..
Summer 2014
(Issue 86) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- White Slime Mould: Alan Bowden
- Obituary - Roy Winsby 1926-2014: Mike
Mahon, Andrew Dutton, Steve Gill, Steve Edgar
- Beginner's Corner - Examining Pond
Water: Roy Winsby (5 pages)
- Alfred Reeves (A.R.) revisited:
Stanley Warren (8 pages)
- Multiple or Differential Colour
Illumination (Rheinberg): Steve Gill (3 pages)
- The Pink Rose Butterfly: Maurice Moss
- Gallery of Curiosities: Richard L
Howey (4 pages)
- Review - Some further works by Horace
Barber: Mike Samworth
Spring 2014
(Issue 85) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- White Slime Mould: Steve Edgar
- Colour correction of microscope
objectives - Dr Carpenter's test for achromatism
'Disc of Deal': Brian Wilkinson (10 pages)
- Grammatophora serpentina - In Pleurax
III: Steve Edgar
- The Micrograph: Stanley Warren (11
pages)
- Colour to Mono
- The Blue Pansy Butterfly: Maurice Moss
- Obituary - Douglas Turnbull Richardson
1919-2013: (5 pages)
- A simple polarising microscope from
Woolley Manchester: Steve Edgar
Christmas 2013
(Issue 84) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Feather mite from a Red Legged
Partridge
- Written for H Perigal esq by Thos
Brand - Microwriting: Stanley Warren, Andrew
Anderson, Howard Lynk (14 pages)
- The Hedge Brown Butterfly: Maurice
Moss
- A gallery of masterpieces: Spike
Walker
- The first twenty on years of the Leitz
Ortholux:- Part ii new stands and optical systems
Bob Nuttall (9 pages)
- Review - An account of the diatom
flora of Nuneaton and some outlying districts:
Steve Edgar
- Forams in Mallorca: Steve Gill
- Off the Cuff Links:
Summer 2013
(Issue 83) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Didymosphenia geminativum - Jelly
babies in pure gold (CVAC)
- Mary Winifred Maud Jepson 1902-1977:
Steve Gill (5 pages)
- Colour tones seen occasionally in
Microphotographs: Brian Wilkinson (5 pages)
- Two classic German post-war
microscopes - Carl Zeiss Standard GFL & Ernst
Leitz Laborlux 3: David Henderson (4 pages)
- The White Bird's Nest: Maurice Moss
- Stereophotomicrography using the
tilting stage - The Microscope 1965: Michael
Gilligan & McCrone Research Institute (8
pages)
- The first twenty years of the Leitz
Ortholux - part 1 models I & II UAM (II) &
III in context: Bob Nuttall (8 pages)
Spring 2013
(Issue 82) of Micro Miscellanea
- From the Editor
- Book Review - An introduction to the
microscopical study of diatoms - McLaughlin: Mike
Samworth
- The new Carl Zeiss High Power -
Binocular microscopes of the 1920s - the stand D
and the stand F: Brian Wilkinson (15 pages)
- A gallery of crystals viewed
with polarized light: Richard L Howey (5 pages)
- Butterflies and Orchids in Southwest
France: David Henderson (4 pages)
- Stacking and Stitching for higher
resolution: Spike Walker
- Petrographic microscopes for advanced
work - Watson & Beck Instruments: Bob Nuttall
(6 pages)
Christmas
2012 (Issue No 81) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial:
Steve Edgar
- Obituary:
William (Bill) Howard Jones 1945-2012: Tom Green
- Leopold
Hartley Grindon: Steve Gill (13 pages)
- Slime
Moulds Identification: Maurice Moss
- A
Gallery of Spicules: Richard L Howey (5 pages)
- Reichert
MicroscopesL David Henderson (3 pages)
- Silver
Staining & Micro Fossils: Richard L Howey (3
pages)
- Shuuietta
annulata
- Life
& Health Insurance (Microscopists Beware):
Richard L Howey (2 pages)
- The
Leitz Black Ortholux: David Henderson (4 pages)
- Jelly
Blobs on the pavement: Maurice Moss
Summer 2012 (Issue No 80) of Micro Miscellanea
- Lieberkuhn
- Some Reflections: Michael Gilligan
- Two Oak
Leaf Galls: Maurice Moss
- Enteridium
lycoperdon or Fuligo septica,: Steve Gill
- "New
Binocular Stereo microscope" Reichert S & SS
Models of the 1920s: Brian Wilkinson (17 pages)
- The
Spider as a Barometer: Michael Gilligan
- LED
Leitz: Steve Edgar (2 pages)
- Josiah
Thomas Slugg of Manchester: Steve Gill (9 pages)
- Marchantia
polymorphia: Steve Gill
Spring 2012 (Issue No 79) of Micro Miscellanea
- The
Shield Bug Diaries: Steve Gill (2 pages)
- Tale of
a Monster CTS 4000: David Henderson (2 pages)
- Two
Classic British Microscopes of the Fifties -
Watson Bactil & CTS M3000: David Henderson (5
pages)
- Buying
Chinese Slides: Richard L Howey (6 pages)
- Negative
Pre-Objective Supplementary Lenses: Brian
Wilkinson (5 pages)
- Petrographic
Cooke, Troughton & Simms' Instruments: Bob
Nuttall (7 pages)
- The
Baker Diagnostic 1899:Steve Edgar (2 pages)
- A
Random Gallery: Richard L Howey (4 pages)
Christmas 2011 (Issue No 78) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- VAC -
light enhancement:
- Collimation
of an Old Style Olympus Binocular: Colin Kirk (4
pages)
- Out of
the Forest - Gambian Arachnids: Dave Penney (4
pages)
- Diatoms
in a New Light: Denis Gregory
- Where
are you from, the Manchester Moth: Dmitri V
Logunov (3 pages)
- A
Polarized Crystal Gallery: Richard L Howey (5
pages)
- The
Evolution of a Petrographic Microscope: the
Swift-Dick Stand: Bob Nuttall (7 pages)
- Denton's
Patent ButterflyTablets: Steve Gill (4 pages)
- Cyrestis
nivea - Nymphalidae: Maurice Moss (3 pages)
- Dancer
Dismay: Denis Gregory
Summer 2011 (Issue No 77) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Essa
Touray's The Gambia: Steve Gill (11 pages)
- A
Gallery of mineral thin sections: Richard L Howey
(5 pages)
- Fossil
amber inclusions under the microscope: David
Penney & David I Green (4 pages)
- Refurbishing
decayed JB Dancer microphotographic slides: Brian
Wilkinson (6 pages)
- An
assortment of oddities:Richard L Howey (4 pages)
- Old
slides: Terry Walsh
Spring 2011 (Issue No 76) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Juniper-Rowan
Rust gymnosporangium cornutum:Steve Edgar
- Heine
microscope patent 1934:
- A
wrinkled amoeba - the camoeba: Richard L Howey
- Epiconpol
- illumination with a different slant: Steve Edgar
(2 pages)
- Apparatus
for producing darkground illumination whilst
sorting pond life: Ian Henderson
- The
Microscope - Rev W Houghton: Steve Gill (8 pages)
- Spikking
Image Gallery: Spike Walker
- The
beautiful Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus) and its
parasitic rust fungi: Terry Walsh
- The
Crimson Speckled (Utenthesia pulchella): Maurice
Moss
- A note
upon the history of the binocular microscope -
Leitz 1913 'New' stand for the highest powers: Bob
Nuttall (7 pages)
- Rare or
Not?: Mike woof
- New
fields to explore!: Denis Gregory
- The
Orange Tip:
- Vital
Staining with powdered Carmine and other magical
acts: Richard L Howey (3 pages)
Christmas 2010 (Issue No 75) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Mirror,
mirror on the wall ..:
- Mary
Allard Booth - 19th C American microscopist &
photomicrographer: Richard L Howey
- Review
- Understanding and Using the Stereomicroscope -
Lewis Woolnough QMC:
- Two
colour plates from The Illustrated Annual of
Microscopy 1900: Alan Turnock
- A small
gallery of creepy-crawlies: Richard L Howey (4
pages)
- The
Northern College of Pharmacy: Steve Gill (5 pages)
- Rheinberg
Revisited: Geoffrey S Dearn
- Mixotrichum
chartarum kunze: Terry Walsh
- The
Mikrops Projektasope by Flatters & Garnett:
Bob Nuttall (10 pages)
- Butterfly
Scales Revisited:Maurice Moss
- Book
Review - A History of Photography with the Light
Microscope - Brian Bracegirdle QMC: Steve Gill
- The
Royal Photographic Society Annual Awards 2010 -
Spike Walker & Gallery
- Letters
to the Editor
- A Song
of Science - Fish:
Summer 2010 (Issue No 74) of Micro Miscellanea
(New Style Glossy Full Colour)
- Editorial
- Palate
of Whelk - Image
- SIZE is
important - Objectives: Ron Green (4 pages)
- A visit
to a local reserve (Nosterfield N Yorks): Mike
Samworth (3 pages)
- Flatters
& Garnett Projektascope: Steve Gill (6 pages)
- Silica
gel as a dehydrating agent in microtechnique: OT
Walsh
- Loch
Cuithir revisited: Steve Edgar (10 pages)
- A
simple air sampling machine: Terry Walsh
- Gallery
Christmas 2009 (Issue No 73) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Kettle
Hole Safari: Alan Turnock
- Blue
Tits - Hedglings away: Steve Edgar
- Oak
Powdery Mildew: Maurice Moss
- A video
microscope (Zeiss): Ron Green (7 pages)
- Forming
crystals by solution and hot melt methods for
study under the microscope: Terry Walsh
- The
Beck Optomax research microscope: David Henderson
(7 pages)
- Patent
- Vertical Illuminator 1938 - Berek: (5 pages)
- Aldi
Traveler and Maplin USB value for money
microscopes: Martin Elsworth & Mike Mahon (4
pages)
- Historical
Ephemera: Steve Gill
- Sales
Autumn 2009 (Issue No 72) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Combined
Effort - Stacking with CombineZ:
- A note
on the history of the binocular microscope -
Conrad Beck's 1913 London Stand: Bob Nuttall (10
pages)
- Digital
photomicrography with a live-view digital SLR ..:
Mike Samworth
- Optical
snobbery - binoculars: Ron Green: Ron Green
- Nikon
Eclipse E100 biological microscope: LM Bowler
- Obituary
- Neville Bradpiece 1923-2009: Roy Winsby
- Groan 0
not more diatoms pleeeease: Steve Edgar (8 pages)
- Resolution
blues
- Kent
& Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting 2009: LM
Bowler
Spring 2009 (Issue No 71) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Obituary
- Eugene Patrick McCann 1922-2009 (President
1992-2002): Roy Winsby
- School
microscopes in the sixties: Bob Nuttall (7 pages)
- Harry
Taylor 1920-2008: Steve Gill
- USB
digital microscope: Terry Walsh
- The
African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis): Terry Walsh
- The
Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella): Steve Gill
- Honey
Bee Mite (Varros destructor): Steve Gill
- William
Webb Glass engraver extraordinary: Roy Winsby
- Who
invented the tilting plate compensator?: Ron Green
- Muscae
volitantes: Roy Winsby
- A
cabinet for 480 slides: Steve Edgar (9 pages)
- QMC
2008: LM Bowler
Christmas 2008 (Issue No 70) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Running
the Society - appeal for Secretary &
Treasurer: Martin Elsworth
- Young
microscopists 2008: Terence Walsh
- Kent
& Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting 2008: LM
Bowler (4 pages)
- In
pursuit of lost resolution: Ron Green (4 pages)
- Light
emitting diode units from Woollies: Terry Walsh
- A
fascination with moths: Mike Samworth (5 pages)
- Mr
Vatcher's ringing machine: OT Walsh
- Men in
sheds: Steve Edgar
- A man
and his microscope - John Williams: Stanley Warren
(12 pages)
- SUPPLEMENT:
List of slides Redmayne, Doherty, Brittain
Summer 2008 (Issue No 69) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Dancer's
advertising billboard - a secondary tale: Stanley
Warren (6 pages)
- Garnetts
(Flatters & Garnett): Steve Gill (8 pages)
- The
Saturday Magazine 1833: Steve Gill (6 pages)
- James
Stanley Midwinter 1923-2008 QMC MMS PMS:
- Your
first microscope - When & How: Terry Walsh
- Collecting
a swarm: Steve Gill
- Haemin
crystals - the simple way: Terry Walsh
- Microscience
2008: LM Bowler
Spring 2008 (Issue No 68) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- A
Question of CDM, Ron Green (4 pages)
- Nikon
Inverted Research Microscope, Lawrence Bowler (4
pages)
- Initials
on mIcrophotographs - thoughts on J.B., Stanley
Warren (15 pages)
- A small
embedding bath, Terence Walsh
- The
Kent & Sussex Report, Lawrence Bowler
- An
unscheduled Gossip Meeting, Terence Walsh
- Trial
and Tribulation Part II, Steve Gill (4 pages)
Christmas 2007 (Issue No 67) of Micro
Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Letters
- A
practical guide to binocular collimation part 2:
Ron Green (3 pages)
- Victorian
Street Microscopy: Steve Gill (7 pages)
- James
Bond Mystery Object: Bill Ellis
- A
Novelty: Terry Walsh
- Bug
Hunting: Steve Gill, Mike Woof, Steve Edgar (5
pages)
- My Dale
Fort Photos: AD Bowden
- LAB
Trade Fair: LM Bowler
- The
economic staining of small amounts of material
directly on the slide: Terence Walsh
- Notes
and Lists
- QMC
2007: LM Bowler
- Kent
& Sussex Microscopy Group 2007: LM Bowler
- Trial
and Retribution: Steve Gill
Summer 2007 (Issue No 66) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Nocturnal
Pond Hunting: Alan Turnock
- Dinosaur
intestinal parasites: Ron Green
- Purpose
built polarising microscope: Terence Walsh
- The art
of value engineering: David G Prakel (6 pages)
- Tale of
a microscopical Luddlite: Ron Green
- The
Rosemary Beetle: LM Bowler
- The
biological drawings of Maud Jepson: Mike Samworth
- The
privet hawk-moth (Sphinx ligustri): LM Bowler
- If you
want to get ahead - get a headrest: Terence Walsh
- Initials
on microphotographs - thoughts on the identity of
A.R.: Stanley Warren (10p)
- Microscopy
& Mortality: Spike Walker (4 pages)
- Microscopium
2007
- Kent
& Sussex Meeting 2006: LM Bowler
Spring 2007 (Issue No 65) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Dr
Hilda M Canter-Lund 1922-2007 Obituary: Elizabeth
Y Haworth
- Sponges
and their life history: Roy Winsby (3 pages)
- The
Stump Puffball: LM Bowler
- The
part the nose plays: Steve Gill
- Friedrich
Johann Justin Bertuch 1747-1822:
- The
Christmas Cracker Diatom: Roy Winsby
- Some
favourite images: Richard L Howey
- On
Collecting: Spike Walker
- Microscience
2006 Exhibition: LM Bowler
- Letters
to the Editor
- Sales
& Wants
Christmas 2006 (Issue No 64) of Micro
Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Spiracles
of Dytiscus
- From
the Toy-Room - the Travelling Vernier Microscope:
Michael Gilligan
- Glycerine
Jelly Mounts: J Lester
- Uninvited
house guests part 2: Roy Winsby (5 pages)
- A
practical guide to binocular collimation: Ron
Green (6 pages)
- Cinchonidine:
Mike Samworth
- Justus
von Liebig, meat extract and microscopy: Steve
Gill (4 pages)
- Photogallery
in colour
- Lords
and Ladies Arum maculatum: LM Bowler
- Letters
to the Editor
- William
Moginie and his microphotographs: Stanley Warren
(8 pages)
- The
Zeiss Mirax Scan and desk: LM Bowler
- Kent
and Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting 2006: Lawrence
Bowler
- Liverworts
and Liverwurst: Richard L Howey (3 pages)
- Psychology
or Psychiatry: Steve Gill & DS Gill
- Sales
& Wants
Summer 2006 (Issue No 63) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Natural
History Snippets
- Uninvited
House Guests - dust mites, bedbugs etc: Roy Winsby
(13 pages)
- Photographic
Curiosity Slides - the identification of JS and
JCS: Stanley Warren (3p)
- Visit
to the Liverpool World Museum: David Rome
- Kent
& Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting 2005: LM
Bowler
- MMS
meeting April 2006: Derek Haworth
- Notes
on past members part 2 - Henry Hall: Steve Gill
- The
Vikon Microscope part 2: Ron Green (4 pages)
- Book
Review - Coastal Plankton Larink et al: RD Butler
- The
Fram, Fridtjof Nansen and the FRAM: Steve Gill (4
pages)
- Microscopy
- Computers - an alternative ringing table:
William J Vatcher
- Quekett
Microscopium Fair 2006: LM Bowler
- Sales
Spring
2006 (Issue No 62) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- From
the Secretary
- Extract
from The Microscopic Cabinet Andrew Pritchard 1832
- A
shocking time of life: Anon
- Notes
on past members - Arthur J Doherty: Steve Gill (4
pages)
- Thomas
Smith of Kendal: Steve Edgar
- James
Smith Monocular Microscope No 77 1844: Graham
Marsh
- Kent
& Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting June 2015:
LM Bowler
- Willard
Wigan a sculptor of miniature items: Roy Winsby (4
pages)
- Colour
Gallery
- QMC
Annual exhibition 2005: LM Bowler
- The
Vikon Microscope: Ron Green (7 pages)
- Letters
to the Editor
- Liverpool
Microscopical Society Members Index (1888): Steve
Gill (5 pages)
- Sales
& Wants
Christmas 2005 (Issue No 61) of
Micro Miscellanea (40 page Glossy Colour
Edition)
- Editorial
- From
the secretary
- Notice
of MMS AGM 2006
- James
Murray MMS 1892-1894
- B
Sturtz, Bonn
- Super
Rheinberg: Bryan Taylor (3 pages)
- About
micro-fungi: Alan Turnock
- Springtails
- neglected hexapods?: Keith Brocklehurst (3
pages)
- Meetings:
Steve Gill
- Small
broomrape: (Orobanche minor): LM Bowler
- My
microscopical life: Cartilage Networks: DM Lawton
- Natural
History Snippets: A Slime mould (LM Bowler, Pine
Moth (Steve Edgar)
- Sand
dollars: Roy Winsby (5 pages)
- Rocks
in thin section - revisions: Martin Elsworth
- MMNHS
Meeting - Fossils: Philip Manning (Manchester
Museum)
- A Sorby
Moment: Steve Gill (4 pages)
- The
plumber's microscope: Steve Gill
- 80th
Anniversary of the Leica 35mm camera: LM Bowler (3
pages)
- Looking
at ponds (from Newsletter #6): IC Fitch
- Photomicrographic
Gallery
- The
Carl Zeiss Workshop: Spike Walker (3 pages)
- Sales
& Wants
Spring 2005 (Issue No 60) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Tar
House - an observation: Steve Gill
- Obituary
- Walter Gilbert Hartley 1913-2005: Roy Winsby
- The
identification of rocks in thin sections part 4:
Martin Elsworth (4 pages)
- The C
& D Field Microscope: LM Bowler
- Natural
history snippet (Garden Peas Pisum salivum):
Lawrence Bowler
- Slaughterwasp:
Liam Smyth
- An old
microscope slide: LM Bowler
- What
happened to reflected light: DJ Thompson
- The
Zeiss 'W' Microscope: Spike Walker (4 pages)
- Quekett
Microscopium Fair 2005: Lm Bowler (5 pages)
- An
auxiliary stage for the MBC-10 stereo microscope:
RB Taylor
- What
happened to the summer hum?: Steve Gill
- Old
blokes and microscopy: Steve Gill
- Sales
& Wants
Winter 2004 (Issue No 59) of
Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- From
the Secretary
- MMS
Rules (for approval)
- Two
days in June: Steve Gill
- Objectives,
Condensors and their effects: Neville Bradpiece (5
pages)
- I did
it my way - Diatom Strews: Steve Edgar (5 pages)
- Butterfly
rearing: Lawrence Bowler
- Meetings
Reports: QMC 2004, Int Biotech & Lab
Automation, Kent & Sussex: LM Bowler (7p)
- Appearance
and reality? Interpreting the microscopic image: J
Lester (6 pages)
- CD
Review - Science Museum: Brian Bracegirdle
Summer 2004 (Issue No 58) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- A
simple petrological microscope: Martin Elsworth
- Microscience
2004 Exhibition: LM Bowler
- The
identification of rocks in thin section part 3:
Martin Elsworth
- Natural
snippets: Lawrence Bowler
- Oddities
and entities (pipettes, crystals, needles,.. ):
Richard L Howey (6 pages)
- The
Kent and Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting: LM
Bowler
- MMS
Members Index vol 2 (1892-1897): Steve Gill (13
pages)
- Weekend
of Leasure and Learning at Malham Tarn Field
Centre: David Rome
- Sales
and Wants
Spring 2004 (Issue No 57) of Micro Miscellanea
- Society
Rules - OK? -from 1949, 1954 and new 2004: Martin
Elsworth
- Happy Days - in Dr Harriman
lab Leeds : Roy Merritt
- Field Craft Controversy -
The Next Generation: Richard J Gill (5 pages)
- Made, factored, or
retailed? Microscopes and slides by Abraham &
Dancer (1841-45): Bob Nuttall (11 pages)
- The Dandelion through the
microscope: LM Bowler (6 pages)
- My microscope - The Zeiss
Standard Microscope WL: David Henderson (3 pages)
- Russian Measuring
Microscope ML-2: LM Bowler
- Sales and Wants
Christmas 2003 (Issue No 56) of Micro
Miscellanea
- From
the Secretary
- Field
Craft Controversy: Steve Gill
- James
Cash (1839-1909) eminent member of the MMS: Keith
Brocklehurst (5 pages)
- The
Kent and Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting: LM
Bowler
- Attaching
wax sections to slides: James Battersby
- Blue
Peter Microscopy - hotplate, waterbath: James
Battersby
- Practamount
- almost a secret for over 30 years: James
Battersby
- The QMC
Annual Exhibition: LM Bowler
- The
Kent and Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting May
2003:LM Bowler
- A crude
way to photograph slides: Martin Elsworth
- Forgetfulness:
Steve Gill
- Why are
there two focussing eyepieces on
stereomicroscopes?: John Chapman (7p)
Summer
2003 (Issue No 55) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- Out of
the frying pan and into the live box: Alan Turnock
- Channel
Tunnel Chalk - available: Lawrence Bowler
- The
identification of rocks in thin section - part 2:
Martin Elsworth (3 pages)
- A look
at microspheres: LM Bowler
- An
abundance of life forms: Neville Bradpiece
- Update
from the Librarian - new books: David Rome
- Syphilis:
Barry Ellam
- Diatoms
and the family: Steve Gill
- Colloidal
silver - a useful antibiotic preservative: Terry
Dennett
- The
Nikon Coolpix and the microscope: Derek Haworth
- New
books by an old member
- MMS
Members Index Vol 1 (1886-1891): Steve Gill (12
pages)
- Reflections
on Dancer dicrepancies: Stanley Warren
January 2003
(Issue No 54) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- The
Secretary's bit
- Obituary
pt 2 - Robert B Park: Roy Winsby
- Another
interesting objective: Lawrence M Bowler
- Instant
photography: Peter McBeath
- Digitising
the Manchester Microscopical Society Slide
Collection: Jenny Brettell
- MMS
Meetings 2002-3 Season & Presidential address:
Mike Mahon
- School
Microscopes in the post-war era: Bob Nuttall (4
pages)
- Dancer
discrepancies: Denis Gregory
- Obituary
- Miss BG Harthan - MMS member 1935-2002,
President 1962
- From
the Librarian (missing books): David Rome
- A Lucid
Pellucida (resolution of Amphipleura pellucida):
Neville Bradpiece
- Thin
rock sections: Martin Elsworth
- Amoeba
proteus: Stephen Durr (4 pages)
- Mass
Diatomicide: Steve Gill
- Stereo
Microscope: Roy Winsby
- The
Quekett Microscopica Clun Annual Exhibition 2002:
LM Bowler
- The
Kent and Sussex Microscopy Group Meeting: LM
Bowler
- Letters
August 2002 (Issue No 53) of Micro Miscellanea
- Editorial
- From
the Secretary
- Entering
the Zeiss fraternity: Mike Samworth (5 pages)
- The
years of recovery: Carl Zeiss Microscope 1945-60:
Bob Nuttall (5 pages)
- Microscience
2002 Exhibition: LM Bowler (4 pages)
- Books
for a beginner: Barry Ellam (7 pages)
- An
interesting odd objective: Lawrence M Bowler
- The
frogspawn alga: Barry Ellam
- Letters
to the Editor
- Protozoa
cultures from Sciento: Mike Samworth
May
2002 (Issue No 52) of Micro Miscellanea
- Updates
from the Editor
- A look
at dielectrophoresis: Lawrence M Bowler,
Orpington, Kent (4 pages)
- It does
what it says on the tin (Objectives resolution):
Neville N Bradpiece
- Mystery
Diatom
- The
years of recovery - Carl Zeiss Microscopes 1945-60
(pt 3): Bob Nuttall
- Winter
Green: Fred Loxton
- Micro
Gallery: Steve Edgar
- Next to
Godliness (cleaning lenses): Neville N bradpiece
- The
Hybrid (Vicklympus): Neville N Bradpiece
- Eye to
Eye: WG hartley
- Computerised
Microscopy: Peter McBeath
- Looking
into the dark (Numerical Apertures): WG Hartley
- New
Books
January
2002 (Issue No 51) ... new A5 printed format
...
- Updates
from the Editor
- Roy
Winsby Commemorative Microslide
- 65
Years On (Beck Microscope Catalogue): Neville N
Bradpiece (5 pages)
- Midlands
Quekett/PMS Meeting: Spike Walker
- Postage
Stamps: Roy Winsby
- Tunicates
with salad on the side: Richard L Howey, Wyoming
(4 pages)
- Union
Optical Co Ltd Inverted Microscope MiC: Lawrence M
Bowler (3 pages)
- How
things have changed (Adverts over the years):
Richard L Howey
- Some
musty old books: Barry Ellam
- It's
all my eye: Neville N Bradpiece
- A voice
from the past: James Battersby, Lancashire
August
2001 (Issue No 50)
- Updates
from the Secretary
- Blank
Pages - Steve Edgar
- West
German Zeiss Microscopes (pt 2): Bob Nuttall,
Edinburgh (5 pages)
- Microscopes
Described (MIPS, Baker, Prior, Pyser-Brytex,
Watson, Leitz, MBS, Beck, CTS, McArthur, Wild):
Roy Winsby, Manchester
- Making
your own micro forceps: RL Howey, Wyoming
- Podophyra,
a remarkable ciliate: Mike Samworth
- Obfuscations
and Hollow Cones: Neville N Bradpiece, Manchester
(2 pages)
May
2001 (Issue No 49)
- Obituary
(Charles J Cook): Roy Winsby, Manchester
- No
Wings, No Legs, No Wheels, So how does it
move?(Diatoms): Neville N Bradpiece
- Microscopy
in the Daily Press: Roy Winsby, Manchester
- A
Tribute to Roy & Lilian (Winsby): MMS
- Micro-Funghi:
When & where to find them. (Part 10 December)
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
- DIY
Maintainance - Further Thoughts: Charles J Cook
- The
Years of Recovery - Zeiss Microscopes 1945-60: Bob
Nuttall, Edinburgh (4 pages)
- Photomicrography:
Peter McBeath
- A
condenser from my gash box: Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester
- An
abbreviated Book List: WG Hartley
January
2001 (Issue No 48)
- Announcements
of Meetings of interest
- DIY
Maintainance with Trepidation: Neville Bradpiece
(3 pages)
- A
Microscopist's Book Collection: Mike Samworth (4
pages)
- Micro-Fungi:
When and where to find them (Part 9 November)
Thomas Brittain (published 1882) (2 pages)
- More
notes on microscopes from the far east: Charles J
Cook (2 pages)
August
2000 (Issue No 47)
- WWW
Internet - new website address: Mike Mahon
- Fluorescence
Microscopy: Charles J Cook, Edington Westbury
- Steve
Edgar new Editor introduction
- Microscopes
from the far east: Roy Winsby, Manchester
- Olympus
CHK2 Microscope: Roy Winsby, Manchester
- The
reason why (fixed condensers): Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester
- A rant
about prepared slides: RL Howey, Wyoming (5 pages)
- Micro-Fungi:
When and where to find them (Part 8 October)
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
- New
Paper: The identification of diatoms in river
beds: Mike Walton, Middlewich
- SUPPLEMENT: A
Naturalist's Lab in a Coal Bin (14 pages): Prof RL
Howey, Wyoming, USA
May
2000 (Issue No 46)
- Neville
N Bradpiece: Micrograph in RMS calendar 2000
- Culturin
and Collecting Micro-organisms safely: Prof RL
Howey, Wyoming USA (6 pages)
- For
Amusement Only: Crystals for microscopy. Neville
Bradpiece, Manchester (2 pages)
- Some
thoughts on trick illumination: WG Hartley,
Seaford (3 pages)
- Food
for Though (and Blackbirds), Tony Smith, Little
Hayfield
- Letters
to the Editor: David Sykes (Microscopy Hardware);
Charles Cook (Bad Books), WH Ellis (Desmids)
- Micro-Fungi:
When and where to find them (Part 7 September)
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
January
2000 (Issue No 45)
- Glass:
Ken Davies, Sale, Cheshire (4 pages)
- A
Strongylocentrotus drobachiensis by any other name
would smell as sweet: Prof RL Howey, Wyoming, USA
(4 pages)
- Boxing
Clever: Microscope boxes. John Raddon
- Micro-Fungi:
When and where to find them (Part 6 August) Thomas
Brittain (published 1882)
August
1999 (Issue No 44)
- The
care of the microscope. Spike Walker, Penkridge (3
pages)
- Pseudo-microscopes:
A cranky Essay. Prof RL Howey, Wyoming, USA (5
pages)
- Slide
label making made easy [Part 2]. Roy Winsby
- Staining
station. Colin J Kirk
- Changing
Fashions. John Raddon
- Micro-Fungi:
when and where to find them. [Part 5 July]
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
May
1999 (Issue No 43)
- Foraminifera
sand from the Scottish Highlands. Roy Winsby
- Seascape
- A new novel three-dimensional slide. Roy Winsby
- Obituary
- Herbert S Henderson ( -1999). Roy Winsby
- Scanning
pond samples at high magnifications. Prof WL
Howey, Wyoming, USA (2 pages)
- Quo
Vadis? (Wither goest thou?). Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester (2 pages)
- Slide
label making made easy. Tom Moore, Peterborough
- Micro-Fungi:
when and where to find them. [Part 4 June]
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
- Rings!
Ten a penny!. Tom Moore, Peterborough
- Coasters.
Roy Winsby
- Aromatherapy
oils for microscopy. Terry Dennett, London
January 1999 (Issue No 42)
- Beginners
-Start here. Max Lovatt, Southam
- Who
counts the pollen. William Ells, Maidstone
- More
Light commentary. Charles J Cook, Westbury
- Test
slide for oil immersion objectives. Gilbert
Hartley, Seaford
- French
resin mountant. WE Dickinson, Barnsley
- Micro-Fungi:
when and where to find them. [Part 3 May]
Thomas Brittain (published 1882)
- Unravelling
the mysteries of microscope boxes. C Hammond,
Leeds
- Book
Review "The Usborne Complete book of the
Microscope" . Brian Singleton, Weybridge
- Book
Review "Microscopical Mounts and Mounters" Brian
Bracegirdle. Roy Winsby
- Book
Reviews: Bad Books "The Technique of
Photomicrography" & "Photomicrography". Spike
Walker, Penkridge.
- A
miniature telescope. Don Bruce, Northiam
- Important
dates- Meetings
August 1998 (Issue No 41)
- Protozoan
Houses. Prof RL Howey, Wyoming, USA (4 pages)
- A
little light commentary. Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester
- Micro-Fungi:
when and where to find them. [Part 2
Mar-Apr] Thomas Brittain (published 1882):
(4 pages)
- Coefficient
Jelly. Terry Dennett, London
- Indian
Microwriting. Denis Gregory, Plymouth
- Zeiss
Lenses. John H Birds, Dronfield
- An aid
to hand picking Foraminifera. Sid Harvey,
Weston-super-mare
- Optics
for Wild Microscopes. Bob Nuttall, Glasgow
- Looking
at histology slides. Barry Ellam, Colchester
May 1998 (Issue No 40)
- Refurbishing
Russian MB series Microscopes. Don Bruce, Northiam
- A
method for preserving certain insects and
arachnids. Prof Howey, Wyoming, USA
- The
Abbe condenser in a new light. Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester (3 pages)
- Micro-Fungi:
when and where to find them. [Part 1 Jan-Feb]
Thomas Brittain (published 1882): (4 pages)
- Erecting
the image. WH Hartley, Seaford
- Information
wanted on magic lantern Slides. Denis Gregory
- A
cutter for Rheinberg etc, Discs. Bryan Taylor,
Maidstone
- Losses
of members - John Clegg, Joseph Lester, RWH Perks,
Ken Preedy, John Roovers
- Microphotograph
slides, our equipment etc. Roy Winsby
- Dog's
bay sand. Roy Winsby
- A
Handbook of Sand - Osborn
- Sand
Museum, Germany
January 1998 (Issue No 39)
- Numerical
aperture and ignotum per ignotius - Neville
Bradpiece (3 pages)
- A note
on demonstrating food vacuoles in ciliates - RL
Howey
- Foraminifera
sand - Roy Winsby (6 pages)
- Beginner's
corner- the stereoscopic microscope - Roy Winsby
- A
Watson slide of a leaf of a nettle: Roy Winsby
- Lakeland
microscopes: Roy Winsby
- The
Russian MBS-10 Stereoscopic microscope: Roy Winsby
- Technical
and optical equipment
- Letters
to the editor
- A new
atlas of Diatomaceae - Girodet
- Does
your brain hurt: Peter McBeath
- Microscope
repair service
August
1997 (Issue No 38)
- Internet
/WWW site for MMS: Mike Mahon, Manchester.
- Drug
Supplier Eats Babies. (Ants: Tom Moore,
Peterborough
- Poroids
in the alveoli of Pinnulari:. Neville Bradpiece,
Manchester (3 pages)
- Culturing
the Freshwater Bryozoan "Plumatella Repens". Prof
RL Howey, Wyoming, USA
- August
Kohler. WG Hartley, Seaford
- A
desmid form new to the British Flora - Cosmarium
tetrachondrum Lundell forma: WH Ells, Maidstone
- Equipment
of deceased members (part 2): Roy Winsby
- Lyme
Disease .. continued
- How do
they do that? ... continued
- Postal
Microscopical Society
- Bookfind.
John Raddon
- Letter
to the Editor. Mrs Joan Bingley, Cobham.
- Bees
- Practical
Microscopy, A Novel Viewer: Peter McBeath, Morpeth
- Discs -
for Rheinberg: Don Bruce, Northiam
May
1997 (Issue No 37)
- Microscope
Illumination for Beginner:. WH Ells,
Maidstone.
- Inexpensive
Water-Immersion Microscopy: RL Howey, Wyoming.
- Murder
Most Foul (wasps): Alan Turnock, Crewe
- Identifying
the British Cladocera (Water Fleas). D Walker,
Huddersfield.
- The
Metal-Coated Slide - What it is and What it does.
NN Bradpiece, Manchester.
- Meteorite:.
P McBeath, Morpeth.
- Ammonites
and Jurassic Mud. P McBeath, Morpeth.
- Obituaries:
Ian Claude Fitch (1903-1997) Past President MMS:
AG Heys.
- How do
they do it? (Tooth-Eye grafts). R Winsby
- New
Meetings Organiser - Mike Mahon
- Microscope
Dealers and Microscope Shops: Roy Winsby
- Frogs:
R Winsby. (2 pages)
- The
Written Word (slide labelling): J Raddon.
- Lyme
Disease: R Winsby.
- The
Wild M20 Research Microscope: D Bruce, Northiam.
- The
Carl Zeiss Organisation Today. R Winsby.
ISSN
1360-6301 Edited by Roy Winsby
January
1997 (Issue No 36)
- Supplement:
Dancer and the Annual Meeting of the British
Association in Manchester: SE Warren, Edinburgh
(12 pages)
- On
Dustmites and Gastrotrichs: RL Howey, Wyoming
- Obituary
- Francis St D Rowntree, OBE. 1928-1996: Roy
Winsby, Manchester
- See
What I Mean? (on contrast and visibility). NN
Bradpiece, Manchester (3 pages)
- More
Thought about Binocular Tubes: Spike Walker,
Stafford (2 pages)
- Some
Thoughts on Incident Lighting: WG Hartley, Seaford
- Shopping
for Bits. John Raddon
- Microscopy
'On Peril on the Sea': HH Huxley, Cambridge
- New
Treasurer - Frank Coaker / need Meetings Secretary
- Mechanical
stage for the Watson Service Microscope: AW
Brooker
- Rheinberg
Illumination
- Wooton
Bassett
- Parasitic
Wasp 'Dinocamopus Coccinellae': Roy Winsby
- The
Society's Instruments
- Equipment
of Deceased Members
- How do
you Measure Up? (on shearing eyepieces): Don
Bruce, Northiam
- Freshwater
Algae - Their Microscopic World Explored. Book
Review - Frank Rowntree
- Microscopists
Sales and Wants -January 1997.
ISSN
1360-6301 Edited by Roy Winsby
August
1996 (Issue No 35)
- Below
the Stage: N N Bradpiece (3 pages)
- Obituary
- Robert B Park
- Acarapis
Woodi Rennie - a mite: RB Park
- Darkground
etc continued: WG hartley
- British
Testate Rhizopods: Keith Brocklehurst
- Book
Review - Fundamentals of the Fungi -
Moore-Landecker: F Rowntree
- Stereoscopic
Vision: Roy Winsby (2 pages)
- Ammonites:
Peter McBeath
- Dustmites:
WH Ells
- Rowney's
Poster & Watercolour Varnish (Mounting
Medium): Terry Dennett
- Ringing
Table made from Computer Hard Disk Drive: EW
Taylor
- Pseudo-Scorpions:
JH Murgatroyd
- Obituary
- John Morris McArthur: Frank Rowntree
- The
McArthur Microscope: Don Bruce (2 pages)
May
1996 (Issue No 34)
- Darkground
& Rheinberg Revisited: MV Salmon (3 pages)
- Miss BG
Harthan at 90, menmber since 1937 - equipment
donation
- Experiments
with Immersion Oil: Neville Bradpiece (2 pages)
- Refractive
Index - A note for the beginner: Roy Winsby
- Sale of
Library books: Peter McBeath
- New
Books: Exploring with the microscope - Nachtigall:
Reviewed by Roy Winsby, Notes on Modern Microscope
Manufacturers - Brian Bracegirdle: Reviewed by Roy
Winsby, Scientific Photomacrography - Brian
Bracegirdle: Reviewed by Frank Rowntree
- Old
Catalogues, manuals, etc
- Microphotograph
Slides
- Meteorites,
Micrometeorites, Meteroids:Alastair McBeath
- Micscape
Magazine
- Sales
& Wants
- Books
on Foraminefera
- First
Steps Booklet
- The CTS
M25 Microscope:
- Inflation
Values: Roy Winsby
January
1996 (Issue No 33)
- ISSN
for Micro Miscellanea 1360-6301 .. now also
includes the News-Sheets
- The
Culpeper Microscope: Roy Winsby
- Sale of
the Society's Microscopes
- Index
to Newsletters & News-Sheets
- Handy
Cell for examining Live Pond Life: Ian C Fitch
- The
Modern Camera Lucida: WH Ells (2 pages)
- Confocal
Laser Scanning Microscope: Peter McBeath
- Microscopy
in Victorian Times: Roy Winsby
- Colour
CCTV Video Microscopy: Keith G Brocklehurst
- Dance
of the Honey Bee - Magnetic Field of the Earth:
Robert Park
- Baker
Series IV BQ MIcroscope: Mike Samworth (2 pages)
- Sales
& Wants
- Microscope
Repairers
- The
Widescreen Centre
- Zeiss
Micro Manipulator
- Diatom
Exhibition Slides
- Booklets:
Roy Winsby
August
1995 (Issue No 32)
- Drawing
Through the Microscope: Roy Winsby (4 pages)
- Pigmented
Protozoa: RL Howey (2 pages)
- New
Lamp for the MBS-9 microscope: Arthur Barron
- Wasps
at work: Ian C Fitch (2 pages)
- Public
Libraries: Peter McBeath
- Contributers
to Desmid Literature: WH Ells
- Specimen
collecting in Wyoming: RL Howey
- The
Society's Instruments
1985-1995 Newsletters
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