THE 2002 QUEKETT EXHIBITION

The 2002 Exhibition was held in the Flett Theatre, which represents a departure from the regular rooms in the Palaeontology Department. Although the number of exhibitors was slightly down on last year, the room was mostly filled to capacity by exhibitors, members and guests. A random poll suggested that this move was very popular, and personally I hope this venue will be used again next year.

There were three demonstrations: Tony Jarratt displayed some of the Club's slide collection, Brian Darnton showed his skills at mounting foraminifera, and I demonstrated and answered questions about digital photomicrography.

Due to this last commitment I am unable to report the occasion as fully as usual, but here are some random shots I took when able:

A general view of the Fletcher Theatre, at a rare time when it was partly empty, probably because people had gone for lunch! But this shows the general layout of the room. An added bonus was that the attached projection room was a available for a number of lectures and talks.

Your Webmaster explains a point about digital photomicography to some interested viewers. I was able to use my laptop and two digital cameras, a Nikon 950 and an Olympus 920 (both no longer in production) to show the general methods. I used PaintShopPro to demonstrate various software techniques.

Eric Hollowday (back to the camera) and Ken Jones (extreme left) used live material to show some rotifers and other interesting aquatic animals taken from the Basingstoke Canal, using Ken's video setup.

The Trade stands were - as usual! - well attended with an enormous range of equipment available at reasonable prices.

Another view of the main table, with some magnificent Victorian brass instruments shown by Brian Davidson in the foreground

All in all it was an excellent day. Many contributed, but Tony Dutton and Bruce Scott must be singled out for all the hard work they had put in to making it such a success.