Hello from Canada

What is your microscopy history? What are your interests? What equipment do you use?
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Microfan
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Hello from Canada

#1 Post by Microfan » Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:01 pm

I am so grateful to Oliver for all the wonderful advice. I just purchased my first microscope and am very pleased with the Swift SW380T - your reviews and suggestions regarding features to look in a microscope for were so helpful!! I am a recently retired MD interested in nerding out with microscopy. My main interest is in canine reproduction, but I'm already finding many other applications! Thank you everyone for all the information on this forum.

tgss
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#2 Post by tgss » Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:20 pm

Welcome from another Canuck. I'm sure you'll find plenty of information and inspiration on the forum, and if you can't find it, just ask.
MD - canine reproduction - OK??? I'm assuming this is not a holdover from your professional life!
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Tom W.

BramHuntingNematodes
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#3 Post by BramHuntingNematodes » Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:44 am

Canada is a good place to be into microscopes the balsam grows on trees up there
1942 Bausch and Lomb Series T Dynoptic, Custom Illumination

apochronaut
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#4 Post by apochronaut » Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:12 pm

Welcome to the forum. Yes. More puppies for Canada.

Bram. It exudes from the bark and in the heat of summer can get quite gummy. When I was a kid we used to chew it sometimes. Some was a bit sweet but most made a quick exit. You hardly ever see the tree outside of granite based soils such as the Canadian Shield. Small local lumber companies would mill larger specimens sometimes for rough 2x4s. Handling the green or kiln dried boards to either plane them or work with them was a pain. Gloves or hands would collect sap and stick to everything.
South of the Canadian Shield here, out of 32 species populating my forest, Balsam Fir is not one of them but if I go just 60 miles north it can be easily found and increasingly northward until it is about 80-90% of the trees.

DonSchaeffer
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#5 Post by DonSchaeffer » Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:56 pm

Hello from Winnipeg.

MarcoAmara
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#6 Post by MarcoAmara » Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:17 am

Hello From UK. Happy to join this forum.

Daviddenk101
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#7 Post by Daviddenk101 » Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:55 pm

Welcome

I am from the US.

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