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The annual Quekett weekend was held this year at Buckingham College near Chalfont St Giles.
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Left is the view of the campus approaching the main building, and right are some of the attendees enjoying a coffee break outside the lecture theatre, which is just visible in the main shot under the Clock Tower. (Many thanks to a new member, Brian Singleton, who turned up armed with a Nikon 950 and took these two shots, and some others on the next page)
The program featured 9 lectures, ranging from Brian Davidson on an historic 'microscope' (the combined telescope and microscope - the 'Davon'), to myself on Consumer Digital Cameras on the microscope, and included a demonstration afternoon on Saturday followed by a Gossip on Sunday. A Club Dinner was enjoyed on Saturday at which the President, Bryan Tabor, paid rightful tribute to Allan Brinkworth, Business Secretary, for his impeccable organisation - as usual the event ran with clockwork smoothness! But why don't more members turn up? He was also kind enough to mention our Web pages.
The lectures covered a wide variety of subjects:
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The Club's 'Mr Rotifer' - Eric Hollowday (left) managed to work in his favourite animals in his talk on drawing through the microscope, while (right), Dr Finch described microfossils. |
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(Left) A sobering picture was painted (almost literally!) by Dr Frank Ward on the damage asbestos can do to the human lung. (Right) In a practical demonstration Malcolm Thain shows that magnetic minerals are just that! |
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There were several other lectures including Phil Greaves on the Buckingham Palace Tardigrades, Maurice Moss showing some lovely SEMs of diatoms, and Prof Alan Brook on algae. But to my mind one of the most unusual was:
| The talk by Brian Davidson on the splendid 'Davon' combined microscope and telescope made by F.W.Davidson (no relation as Brian hastily explained!). The inset shows Brian demonstrating it in macro mode, while the main picture shows the full instrument in all its glory. |
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