Exploring the miniature
world
ISSN 1365 - 070x
Issue 28: February 1998
Next update March 13th
with topical news throughout
the month
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Articles this Month
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| How to make money from
your hobby(article one)
- making a professional picture |
| Growth of a starfish
- the fascinating stages in the development of an Echinoderm |
| Simple 'top lighting'
with a compound microscope
- or how to study subjects you can't get light through! |
| Marly's
Micronauts (Link to author's own web site)
- making a single lens microscope using beads of water or superglue! |
| A history lesson on cross
polars
- how Polaroid was developed, with stunning image of Vitamin C |
| 'Tears of a swan'
- Lacrymaria olor, the 'giraffe' of the protozoan world! |
| The rotifer jaw - a look at the jaws of the rotifer Brachionus |
| A sideways look at - identifying
those 'little beasties' to species
- an irreverent look at one of the frustrations for the microscopist |
| Image of the month
-Garden Spider jaws between crossed polars |
| Notes on the desmid
Euastrum crassum
- desmids are attractive algae |
| What were those minute
mystery objects on a fly's leg shown last month?
- but the probable answer is even more mysterious! |
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