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My first microscope, a B&L from the 40's. Worked great!	Taken with the old scope --Closterium	Taken with the old scope -- Pediastrum

My Balplan Bright Field microscope	Taken with the Balplan --Closterium	A Vorticella colony

MULTIPUS - A Bryozoan statoblast	Shell open, body partially extended	Tentacles extended, cilia on tentacles produce flow for feeding

Tardigrada - "water bear" (8 legs, 4 on each side, with little claws for feet -- look carefully!)		A Hemlock elongate scale insect on a hemlock needle

Spirogyra, a common alga	Cothurnia on algae	Cell Division

Many more pictures taken through my microscope(s) are available via the following links

Amoeba Pictures - Both unshelled and shelled types

Bryozoa Pictures - Plumatella, including statoblasts

Desmid Pictures

Insect Pictures

Miscellaneous Pictures

Protist Pictures

Rotifer Pictures

Tick Pictures - Mostly deer ticks plus a dog tick for comparison

The numbered scale shown in most of the pictures can be used to judge the exact size but you must be familiar with the particular plant or animal to determine which objective was used to take the picture -- 250/100/25 microns per numbered division are produced by the 4/10/40 power objectives respectively. For example, the Bryozoan Plumatella produces statoblasts which are typically about 1/2 mm = 500u (500 microns); if you check the Bryozoa pictures you will see that the most commonly used objective for these pictures was the 10x yielding 100u per numbered division.

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