Activities on Microscopy Associated with Lab #1
Bruce G. Stewart - General Zoology 1114

REQUIRED OF THOSE MISSING LAB #1:

• View the Videotape:  Volume 1:  Use of the Light Microscope by David T. Moran and J. Carter Rowley, III.  Histology Videotape Series.  You should do so in the MSC Learning Resource Center.  Ask for it at the library desk.  The video is for "in-library" use only, and you must sign in and sign out at the desk.

REQUIRED LINKS TO VISIT:

• Nanoworld is the great web site of  the Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis at The University of Queensland.   Here is are direct links to their web pages on Scanning Electron Microscopes and the exciting new Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope. Here is another link for information on the Transmission Electron Microscope.
• Click on the graphic below to visit Nanoworld's image gallery page where you can visit galleries of scanning electron micrographs, transmission electron micrographs, light microscope images, and other types of microscopy images.
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• Visit the following link (click on the image) of the Boston Museum of Science and view several of  the Scanning Electron Microscope images there. This link will open in a new window, so you will need to close the window to get back to here.
  
• Microscopy-UK has a nice, brief history of the microscope and many microscope related materials at the following link: Microscope Primer. This link will open in a new window, so you will need to close the window to get back to here.  A good starting point once your go to this page is the "Beginners" link on their table of contents.