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Green algae from a garden pond: Tetrabaena socialis - Bernd Laber (Germany) shares an illustrated essay on aspects of the fascinating reproductive stages of this algae.

The challenge of grinding lenses for single lens microscopes - Alvaro Azevedo (Brazil) shares a second article on further developments and capabilities of his single lens microscope projects, including an impressive tiny lens 0.7 mm in diameter.

Views through a mathematical microscope of some three-dimensional oddities - Brian Johnston (Canada) shares some striking mathematically created forms; some with a resemblance to natural organisms.

Don't forget high ISO on your digital SLR - Ian Walker (UK) shares a selection of macro images taken on a Nikon D50 and Minolta 7D at 1600ASA to show that the extra speed is useful on dull winter days and the 'digital grain' can form part of the picture.

Non-obese rocks and minerals - Richard Howey (USA) presents an illustrated essay of some attractive thin rock sections.

A gallery of n-butyl-p-aminobenzoate photomicrographs (using a variety of illumination techniques) - Brian Johnston (Canada) continues his series to show the attractive images of this chemical which can be created under the microscope.

 

In focus: British Phycological Society website is an attractively presented and informative site describing the society's membership benefits, publications and activities. Thank you to Jan Krokowski, editor of the 'Phycologist' for the link info'. The Wannenköpfe is Fred Kruijen's website sharing his knowledge of and enthusiasm for a local quarry in Germany and the minerals that can be found there, includes many illustrations. Thanks to Fred for the link info'. Microscopy-UK website 2005 visitor stats. Feedback tends to be a bit slim to contributors so hope this stats summary does show that folk are visiting and hopefully enjoying the site's resources. Years totals: visitors - 2.57 million, page accesses - 10.6 million, data transferred - 994 Gbytes.  Monthly average: visitors - 214 000, page accesses - 889 000 (over a million a month for Sep-Nov), data transferred - 82.8 Gbytes.  Last, but by no means least, a big thanks to my colleague Maurice Smith, site founder and owner who quietly behind the scenes on finding our internet provider was frustratingly pulling the plug on our main site undertook some expensive overseas phone calls, and rapidly set up an a/c on a new server to solve the problem. ..... (and the Micscape Ed's modem is close to meltdown 16 000 files later after reuploading the site).

 

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