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- Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: Microscopy accessories
- Topic: Dust Covers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5448
Re: Dust Covers
Thank you all -- I have a couple of pure cotton well-washed pillow-cases, so I will try cutting a hole in one. Failing that a half-sheet. @MicroBob -- Yes, that's right, although I had no idea it was a new idea. I am a keen if rather bad sketcher of scientific subjects, it's a discipline I got from ...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: Microscopy accessories
- Topic: Dust Covers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5448
Dust Covers
Does anyone know of a source of dust-covers made to size for a microscope? I'll have no difficulty with my new Optiphot at present but I intend to add an Optizoom and a drawing-tube in the next few months and I've never seen a cover meant to include a drawing tube. A camera apparatus could be, I thi...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:43 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: I was looking to get more out my microscope.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7216
Re: I was looking to get more out my microscope.
I'd advise you to take up a special field. ''Science'' is an immense subject and has been far, far too large for one mind to master since it properly began. You're interested in rotifers, so I'd make that my speciality were I you. I regret I have never cultured rotifers, so I defer to the far more e...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:42 am
- Forum: For forum members who want to buy and sell equipment
- Topic: Student microscopes - Leica BME, AO/Reichert 160, and Swift 400 w/ phase contrast
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3239
Re: Student microscopes - Leica BME, AO/Reichert 160, and Swift 400 w/ phase contrast
I hope you don't mind a non-commercial message, but that is a thoroughly decent thing you plan to do.
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Too much plastic?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8363
Re: Too much plastic?
:x This sort of thing is, to my mind, near to the criminal. If he had the choice between a blurred and uninterpretable image representing science and reason or a sword-brandishing goblin in luridly bright colours and full 3D representing stupid popular culture, which would the average child choose? ...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:18 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: 1650 Pelican Case
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10683
Re: 1650 Pelican Case
I regret to say I have always used a plastic cooler-box. A student microscope, wrapped in a green velvet dust-cover, fitted very well. Then again, the only moving my microscopes have ever had is to go from one rented house to another in the back of my dear mother's car (in the boot, NEVER on the sea...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:04 am
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: My brand new Zeiss Primo Star
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5737
Herr Zeiss und Gesellschaft seem to have entered into the spirit of the season with Christmas lights on their microscopes :mrgreen: ! Joking aside, do the lights have a function? Some sort of integrated brightness display, akin to the Optiphot 66 I imagine. Yours is a beautiful microscope aesthetica...
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:41 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6666
Re: Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
Eminently good idea!
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:52 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6666
Re: Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
My sincerest thanks. I have been digging a little on Nikon's website -- of the full frame cameras given there the D750 is the lowest grade to have EFCS, but the price is prohibitive. It would actually be significantly cheaper to buy a lesser camera and one of the made-to-order eight-hundred Euro ada...
- Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:36 pm
- Forum: Camera systems and imaging
- Topic: Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6666
Nikon cameras for Optiphot -- beginner's questions.
The very kind man who has sold me the Optiphot also sent photographs of an adapter he has enclosed, a Nikon UFX unit with the analogue parts removed and rendered light-tight to serve as a digital adapter, and also a 5x projection eyepiece. In theory a Nikon full-frame camera will suit very well to r...
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: more Biddulphia pulchella
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8383
Re: more Biddulphia pulchella
Sincerest thanks. Unfortunately I am rather dangerous, the half-learned amateur. Somehow I have toddled through fifteen years of botanising either as pupil or amateur without noticing that rule. Again, as the above poster is well aware it's not absolute either that a zoological type bears such a nam...
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 1:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: more Biddulphia pulchella
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8383
Re: more Biddulphia pulchella
It was transferred to Biddulphia by S.F. Gray in 1821, but with an invalid change of the specific name to pulchella. Thus we have Biddulphia pulchella S.F. Gray nom. illeg. [nomen illegitimum]. Know very little (read nothing) about botanical nomenclature, but I was under the impression that the dou...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: more Biddulphia pulchella
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8383
Re: more Biddulphia pulchella
Failed to catch the latin translation ... When I do try and translate latin names I am always surprised at how prosaic they are. I fear that this naming may actually be more prosaic than I suggested :cry: http://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=37290 ... but it was nice whilst it...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:29 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: more Biddulphia pulchella
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8383
Re: more Biddulphia pulchella
@ MichaelG -- A fellow Latinist perhaps? A beautiful language and v. useful for biology though not for the lazy! As we used to say at school: Latin is a dead tongue, Dead as dead can be -- It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me! Biddulphia pulchella is a beautiful little thing, as you ...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:20 am
- Forum: Resources (online, books etc.)
- Topic: Copepoda links in archive.org
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4856
Re: Copepoda links in archive.org
For British users, Robert Gurney's wonderful monograph on the ''British Fresh-water Copepoda'', three volumes, Ray Society (used to be my go-to book if I want more detail than the FBA's wonderful key) used to be on archive.org, three volumes, a brilliant book. I can't trace it now, but my internet s...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:08 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Moss Protonema
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3770
Re: Moss Protonema
Often times I wonder when a filamentous organism is an algae thalus...vrs. a moss protonema...your kind link gives me useful content for my observations of freshwater communities. Chloroplast morphology should be a great help in a doubtful case -- none of the septate Chlorophyte algae possess numer...
- Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Scone Surprise - YUK
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5420
Re: Scone Surprise - YUK
These look like bunches of whatever a fungus has for 'flowers'? If my memory serves me they're conidiophores bearing conidia, or asexual, wind-borne spores, produced by mitosis so no, they're not analogous to a flower as they are purely a means of asexual propagation, in terms of the Plant Kingdom ...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Moss Protonema
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3770
Re: Moss Protonema
I've glanced through the paper, it seems most interesting. I will get it printed out at the town library and study it properly when I've more time to devote to it. My sincere thanks.
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 12:40 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Moss Protonema
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3770
Re: Moss Protonema
Yes, it's fascinating, isn't it? I will never tire of lower plant forms of all types. Unfortunately the mosses have never been my special field, but it is absolutely protonema. A nineteenth-century textbook of mine indicates a good place for protonema-hunting ''the green stuff so often seen in flowe...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:49 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Microbes Belonging to New Kingdom of Life Discovered
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6739
Re: Microbes Belonging to New Kingdom of Life Discovered
I'm not sure about the phrasing of the title of the article, which implies that the Hemimastigophora were literally discovered for the first time by Miss Eglit, which is of course untrue and contradicted by the article. [ .... ] Yes, regrettably over-dramatised in the News headlines ... but at leas...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 11:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Assorted Marine Diatoms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3786
Re: Assorted Marine Diatoms
A series of beautiful stacked photomicrographs of a few of the abundant and exquisite marine Bacillariophyta (Kingdom Chromista, though my taxonomy may be rather outdated). A real treat to see the living ''plant'' (a term used in the very broadest and most inaccurate sense) as a complement to the ex...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 10:16 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Garstang's Zoological Verses
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3034
Re: Garstang's Zoological Verses
Thank you. I'm glad you like them. Sadly whimsy is not too common these days. My old teacher Alan E. Joyce was a writer of comic botanical and zoological verse as well, I must try to dig some of his out.
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello from Sutherland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5884
Re: Hello from Sutherland
Extremely useful. Thank you very much. Thus, allowing for four objectives, we would have c. 1100 for DIC omitting the plan objectives and the stand. The objectives bought would naturally depend on the prism sliders I acquired. Would c. 2100-2500 cover it, I wonder? It's a good deal of money, but not...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello from Sutherland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5884
Re: Hello from Sutherland
Thank you. Most useful. Thank you for the Zetopan advice. It's a very good and well-fitted out large research microscope in extremely high regard (described once by a chap I know as a Rolls-Royce). Also, I know I can afford it, as I narrowly missed one with brightfield and phase for £345.00 in the S...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Garstang's Zoological Verses
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3034
Garstang's Zoological Verses
I have not been able to trace a copy of the book, but, as some light relief, I give two of Walter Garstang's comic zoological poems (yes, the Garstang of Garstang's Hypothesis). ''The Ballad of the Veliger, or how the Gastropod got his Twist'' Note the wry reference to the absurd Lamarckian theory o...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:34 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: Hello from Sutherland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5884
Regrettably I don't have a photography setup -- it's one reason I need a new microscope! I hope this link to DIADIST, a useful online database, will slake your thirst Yes, DIC belongs rather firmly in the category of Pipe Dreams. It's the Sangreal of microbiology for a good reason -- it's hard to fi...
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Microbes Belonging to New Kingdom of Life Discovered
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6739
Re: Microbes Belonging to New Kingdom of Life Discovered
I'm not sure about the phrasing of the title of the article, which implies that the Hemimastigophora were literally discovered for the first time by Miss Eglit, which is of course untrue and contradicted by the article. We have been aware of them for a very long time but only now have we subjected t...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 11:37 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Miscellaneous Photomicrographs
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6858
Re: Miscellaneous Photomicrographs
Thank you. These are really quite lovely. I have yet to begin taking photomicrographs, this sort of thing is an inspiration.
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: My Zeiss Microscopes
- Replies: 143
- Views: 129205
Re: My Zeiss Microscopes
A splendid collection, especially the Universal. DIC too!
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Another Moss Dissection
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9801
Re: Another Moss Dissection
This really is a wonderful series. It might be beneficial for beginners to state, if my memory serves me, that acrocarpous mosses bear the sporophyte on the end of the axis of growth, parallel to a vertical growth habit, whereas the pleurocarpous mosses bear the sporophytes on the sides of the axis ...