THE 2006 ANNUAL EXHIBITION

A report and photographs by Tony Dutton & Tony Saunders-Davies

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The theme for the TimeLine this year was the microscopes of Carl Zeiss.
Above is some of the splendid examples from the Club's collection.

Tony Jarratt sets up the Carl Zeiss TimeLine.

 

The President, Pam Hamer, opens the Exhibition, and welcomes exhibitors and guests.

Brian Davidson's exhibits are invariably well-presented, as with this row of microscopes showing various slides under Dark Ground Illumination. See below left: fossil teeth, below right: a superb fossil ammonite.

Fred Price showed a collection of insect slides and pictures

Vaughan Dodge specialises in dry mounts of flowers and seeds, and showed a range of slides, of which I reproduce two below:


The President, Pam Hamer, explains her exhibit to an interested visitor.This drew on her experience as a forensic scientist; remarkably something as simple as a cable tie can be identified as coming from the same mould as another one, which can be of great help in an investigation.

Barry Ellam's exhibit included radiolaria under DGI.


Tony Dutton can always be relied on to provide an original and well-presented exhibit, and this year was no exception. He investigated part of the spectrum not often explored by 'light' microscopists: the infra red!

Gwyneth Thurgood shows some of her beautiful polarised crystal 'landscapes' to an interested visitor.

Left: some interesting Zeiss 'bits' shown by Brian Davidson, and above the magnificent Zeiss Universal.
(I wonder who had the job of lifting it onto the table!)

No exhibition would be complete without one of Brian Darnton's demonstration of mounting forams. Brian is an expert on this interesting and important group.

Phil Greaves had an interesting exhibit: live brine shrimps shown on his very nice video capture setup.

My wife asked if they were his pets!


Malcolm Thain had showed what looked like fossil teeth - except they weren't! As I understand it they were some sort of 'trace' fossils.

 

 

 


So another excellent Annual Exhibition passes by. A most enjoyable event full of interesting exhibits.

Congratulations to all - especially the organisers for all their hard work which certainly paid off!