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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.
groups.io
(formerly Yahoo groups):
Amateur Microscopy
Diatom Forum
Microscopy as a hobby or
profession
Wild Microscopes
Facebook
groups:
Amateur Microscopy (>21000
members, very active). Also specialist
groups e.g. for users of given maker's
microscopes (e.g. Zeiss, Olympus, Wild,
Vickers). Also try a Facebook Group search
with keywords like microscope or
microscopy to find these.
Other:
Microbe hunter the website ably
run by Oliver Kim has built up a popular
and valuable forum with help for both the
beginner and more advanced user.
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to an outdated Indiana Univ.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
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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, forams and scales.
www.testslides.com website devoted
to Stefano Barone's Diatom Lab test
slides.
Darwin Biological
a UK company for 'biological education'
supplies. Including live cultures of
protozoa and algae.
Microscopie van de
Natuur Dutch microscopy
resource site by Rolf Vossen.
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In Focus: Mol Smith has been very busy
liaising with contributors to prepare and
publish Micscape Yearbook 2. It is now
available from Amazon stores.
World
Microscope Day, April 13th.
Robert Ratford along with various microscopy
societies have come up with an excellent idea
to promote microscopy. A