Derek Stevens: Brought in his new close circuit eyepiece camera and all the requisite paraphernalia and treated us to a live continuous showing of the main itinerants of his ancient birdbath with a star performance by a very hungry amoeba.

Dick Speight:

Demonstrated a rather clever drawing device by Baker in which the drawing page was projected into the eye via a sliding prism and reflecting mirror.

Christine Brodie:

Brought in a portmanteau of her recent incredible art work showing objects from the world of natural history. [Ed: The pictures taken by Brian looked quite exquisite at full size; unfortunately they have inevitably lost something in resizing for the Web. The originals must have looked even more beautiful!]

One of her lichen paintings

Another lichen picture - these tie-in very nicely with a lecture at the recent Cobham meeting!

The upper surface of the Arachnoidiscus on black scraper board clearly demonstrated the superiority of good artwork compared with the camera.

Peter Weedon Showed a variety of old Beck stands and a very old leitz stand from a variety of inexpensive sources.

Fred Loxton and Charlotte, had a main display of a very rare slide of a hair worm mounted by a R.T.L. in 1867. The slide was illustrated by an article written by a certain R.T. Lewis in a Science Gossip of the same year. One can reasonably presume with such an unusual object that the Author and Mounter were the same person. This worm must have been a very prolific creature as there were hundreds of eggs in the abdomen.

Joan Bingley: Had already attended the Quekett meeting Microscopium earlier in the day but never the less brought along a box of slides mounted in 1912 by A.N. in the afternoon. They were of fine silk fabric and very beautiful under the microscope.

Graham Griffin brought along yet another Vickers, a DIC into which he had introduced a sliding wedge to improve the contrast at the rotation of a screw. The Diatoms on the stage were really finely illuminated.

Per Borgesson Demonstrated a very small Chinese pocket microscope which had been constructed from a German Design. It had three lens elements and combinations could magnify up to times thirty, by mixing and matching. The instrument bore the inscription Design by Wetzlar EMO Germany.

William Vatcher. Brought along a little dish of amber fragments all of which contained clearly visible insects. He also came up with a multitude of his customary clever practical ideas from everyday life.

Alan Hepworth:

Filled a table with a series of photographic albums of extremely good quality photographs of natural history objects large and small. The most inspiring was fritillaries in their natural setting - and this interesting advert.

Dr Bingley: Amused visitors with the attributes of a very recently acquired pre war German microscope bristling with knobs, which seemed to be in very good condition.

Klaus Kemp had a good display of portable microscopes and his latest designs of White on Black objects for reflected light.

These were a microscopic collage of Diatom frustules, spicules, butterfly scales and other object to magnificent effect.

Brian Darnton:

had a display of Foraminifera from around the British Isles which included his latest idea of using a grid for the identification of species but also a central circle for a representative strew or a laid pattern of the dominant species.

Margriet Darnton and Rosemary Stevens, kindly supplied refreshments during the course of the day.