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In Focus
Wim van Egmond, one of our regular contributors has suggested the following and writes on Facebook:
"This is the idea, it is still a couple of weeks to go but: September 7th is Van Leeuwenhoek Day. Then we'll celebrate the discovery of the micro world. On September 7th, 1674 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek wrote the letter to the Royal Society that contained the first description of microbes. It's the discovery of the micro world, the birth of microbiology. In this letter he described how he set out to investigate why the water of the Berkelse Meer, a lake near Delft, turned whitish during summer. He filled a little bottle and examining the water with his self-made microscope he found green tendrils, spirally wound serpent wise, made out of interconnected little balls. And between these he found many little animals, some as small as a thousandth the size of the smallest animals he had seen on the crust of cheese.
The 'whitish water with green tendrils' we can now identify as a cyanobacteria bloom with the helical colonies of Dolichospermum. The little animals are impossible to identify from the description but were probably a mix of single cellular organisms like Euglenas, ciliates, green algae and microscopic animals like rotifers.
We celebrate Van Leeuwenhoek Day by taking out our microscope to a local pond or lake, fill a bottle, make a slide and show everyone who is passing by the wonders of the micro world. With a microscope anyone can make discoveries. In case you don't have a microscope, just use your imagination and celebrate the day microbes were discovered in a way you feel is appropriate. And don't forget to share it."
Update August 26th. Wim has prepared an illustrated pdf article summarising the historical background to this event. Click here.
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Updated June 2016. Below are some of
our favourites, which includes sites with
extensive links and/or resources for the
optical microscopy enthusiast.
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External
Microscopy
forums:
Places
to
discuss
the
hobby
or
to
raise
queries.
www.photomacrography.net
forums,
galleries,
articles
on
macroscopy
and
photomicrography.
Yahoo
groups:
a
'P' denotes
current
and
archived
messages
are
public
i.e.
not
limited
to
members.
Amateur
Microscopy
P
(started
November 2008)
Yahoo
Diatom Forum P
Microscope
P
(>1500
members,
very
active)
Wild
M20
microscope
microcosmo
(for
Italian
speaking
enthusiasts)
CombineZ
P
stacking
software
forum
created
by
the
software's
author
Facebook groups:
Amateur Microscopy (>1000 members, very active)
Listservers:
Algae-L 'Forum for marine, freshwater and terrestrial algae'. Access to Archives possible for non-subscribers.
Diatom-L 'Research on the diatom algae.' Access to Archives for subscribers only. Link was current March 2016. Many online diatom resources point to an outdated Indiana Univ. listserver. (With thanks to Rob Kimmich for the current link.)
Mikroskopie-Treff.de
(Extensive
German
microscopy
forum;
some
English
categories.)
Mikrobiologische
Vereinigung
München
e.
V.
Wide
range
of
articles
and
resources
in
German.
Le
Naturaliste
French
based
forum
and
image
gallery for
micro
/
macro
but
open
to
non
French
speaking international
contributors.
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Other
sites (also see Societies and Clubs page.)
Royal Microscopy
Society
Journal, 'infocus' and other resources for members and the community.
Quekett
Microscopical Club Journal, Bulletin and meetings for members.
Light
Microscopy
Forum
links
and
articles
Little
Imp
Publications
public
domain
books
collated by Steve Gill formerly on
CD and now free on Micscape.
Mikroskop
Museum
German
website
with
resources
on
microscopes
/
makers
.
Molecular
Expressions
awesome
optical
microscopy
resources
Dennis
Kunkel's
SEM
images
stunning
images
Diatoms
Ireland - resource site by
Leszek Wolnik
Leitz
museum
an
illustrated
resource
compiled
by
Robert
Allen
Microbe
hunter microscopy enthusiast website, forum and magazine
edited by Oliver Kim
Microscopies
online
magazine
and
Forum
for
French
speakers
Micrographia
articles,
projects
for
the
enthusiast
Microscopy
Today
journal with
online
archive
Modern
Microscopy
online
journal
by
McCrone
Group
Fun
Science
Gallery
projects,
articles
on
optics in English and Italian.
Independent Generation of Research (IGoR) - Wiki style resource for citizen scientists to share their work.
Lens On Leeuwenhoek - extensive resource online by Douglas Anderson
Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ('Alle de Brieven ..') transcribed and free online at DBNL.
A
Cabinet
of
Curiosities
a resource
on
Victorian
microscope
slides by Howard Lynk
Klaus Kemp's 'Diatoms' website - offers regional strews and arranged prepared slides of diatoms, an 8 form test slide, radiolaria, insect scales etc and prepares arranged slides on commission.
'Diatoms
Ireland' resource by Leszek Wolnik
Historical
makers of microscopes and microscope
slides
Brian
Stevenson's extensive resource
.
Victorian slide makers
Cambridge
rocking microtome resources including
manual
www.willemsmicroscope.com Dutch enthusiast Willem Cramer's website
David Jackson's Better Microscopy blog.
Regularly updated free resources extending from his 'Better Microscopy' series of books.
Stefano Barone's Diatom Shop sale of his own prepared and arranged slides of diatoms, radiolaria and forams.
Stefano Barone's 'Microworlds' blog regularly updated blog and diary where Stefano showcases and discusses the typical examples of the slides he has prepared.
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