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Clive’s Corner #10: Sample Chambers for Plankton
Can you use a petri dish to view plankton with a compound scope, without dunking your objective in seawater? Let’s discuss!

Clive’s Corner #9: Introducing a demonstration microscope.
SFMS, meet $50 demo microscope. $50 microscope, meet SFMS!

Clive’s Corner #8: An exciting challenge
Get excited! It’s installment #8 of Clive’s Corner


Let there be light – anytime, anywhere.
Step 1: “Drill holes in the microscope base to add a slider switch and potentiometer for light intensity adjustment.” Interested? This Clive’s Corner is for you.

Living in a polarized world
In day-to-day life we are rarely aware of polarized light. But to the microscopist, polarized light can reveal a hidden world even on the most basic of instruments.