BALSAM POST

Selected Balsam Post content for some recent issues to show the range of topics

(For cumulative index for Issues 1 to 139 (150th Anniversary edition) - click here)

January 2021 (130)	Four objectives (comparison of) Tales of a Wand’ring microscope man Part 5: the microscope that wouldn’t do it all Secrets of the sands Casting light on the Leitz 170mm tube length Inverted microscopes: Olympus CK, Olympus IMT Observations on the stomata of leaves Tardigrades Part 2
October 2020 (129)	The inverted microscope - an introduction On the cerebellum Tales of a Wand’ring microscope man Part 4: mysterious colours in the eyepieces Rusts Tardigrades Part 1
July 2020 (128)	Tales of a Wand’ring microscope man Part 3: My H&Es are the wrong colour On the Radiolaria of Chimbarazo, Barbados Secrets of the sands Klein’s Quartz plate Robert Hooke, the Royal Society’s microscopist The slides of H M Hatherly An enemy of the microscope
April 2020 (127)	An interesting read: Edward Hutchie Home-made handy size test sieves Tales of a Wand’ring microscope man Part 2: the tragic tale of a briken forty-times lens A visit to GBI labs Genito Urinary Medicine The ‘Lego’ of Photomicrography
January 2020 (126)	3-D condenser by Gamma Tales of a Wand’ring microscope man Part 1: Compound? Simple? A trio of 3-D printed devices for the microscope Open access internet libraries
October 2019 (125)	Using bi-colour polarisers Saligenin crystals Oil immersion Powering LED lighting
July 2019 (124)	Total Immersion Part 2 Mycorrhizal infections of wheat roots Inside the SM II - a CMO stereo microscope by Zeiss Development of my home laboratory
April 2019 (123)	Total Immersion Part 1 Slide cabinet knobs A counterbalance for focusing a pole-mounted microscope Time travel for microscopists, with apologies to HG Wells. Making scents of antennae Honey bee with two stings Basics of LED illumination
January 2019 (122)	Wanderer microscope Ernst Haekel Lighting a patholette Development of an LED driver Staining obejcts
October 2018 (121)	My local pond Potato blight A tale of posies and pollen Tourmaline and other matters Development of Olympus SZ40 lighting A rotating head for fluorescence illumination
July 2018 (120)	Another perspective on the HDMI inspection camera The WeMacro stacking rail Henry Clifton Sorby, an appreciation Medium power oil immersion objectives On human chromosomes Infinity corrected objectives
April 2018 (119)	The Wenham microscope WeMacro stacking system John Nicholls - slides of coal balls A tale of two diatoms My favourite objectives
January 2018 (118)	Circuit notebooks Photographing snowflakes On my favourite objectives Birefringence, by way of a crazy calculation Stereo viewing with a compound microscope An easily made test slide