The Quekett Microscopical Club is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy . Its members come from all over the world, and include both amateur and professional microscopists. It is a registered charity and not-for-profit publisher, with the stated aims of promoting the understanding and use of all aspects of the microscope.
16-515: The Club was founded in 1865 as a result of a letter from W. Gibson published in Science Gossip in May 1865 suggesting that "some association among the amateur microscopists of London is desirable". The suggestion was taken up by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke , Thomas Ketteringham and Witham Bywater, and they met on 14 June 1865 and agreed a provisional committee. About sixty people attended the first meeting of
32-518: A Lancashire cotton-factory, and his wife Maria (born Ellor), he was born at Levenshulme , near Manchester, on 21 September 1837. He received no education except some desultory instruction at a school held in the Wesleyan chapel, which he supplemented by private study. About 1850 he obtained a situation as store-boy at the locomotive works of the London and North-Western Railway at Longsight . Two years later he
48-642: A few meetings in other parts of the United Kingdom. During the warmer months, the Club arranges excursions where members can collect specimens and examine them using their own microscopes. The Club holds an annual exhibition in the Natural History Museum each autumn. Reports of meetings are published in the Club’s Bulletin and on its website. The Club’s publications include the amateur-friendly Bulletin of
64-662: A minister. After a brief stay in the engineer draughtsman's office at the LNWR Crewe works, he obtained in 1863 a position as sub-editor on the Norwich Mercury under Richard Noverre Bacon . Subsequently he became editor of the Norwich People's Journal , or People's Weekly Journal , an offshoot of the Mercury, and under him the Journal became a success. From 1858 onwards Taylor
80-601: A similar club for young men was formed in Ipswich in emulation of it, as a revival of the dormant Ipswich Philosophical Society. On removing to Ipswich, and taking up the editorship of the magazine, Taylor became the central figure of the Ipswich group. His health collapsed in 1893. In 1893 John T. Carrington became proprietor of Science-Gossip , which he edited until 1902. In 1899 "the favourite journal for amateurs devoted to Natural, Physical, and Applied Sciences," entered offices at 110 Strand, London. The editor, John T. Carrington,
96-408: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . John Ellor Taylor John Ellor Taylor (1837, Levenshulme , England–1895, Ipswich , England) was an English popular science writer, journalist and museum curator. The eldest son of William Taylor (died 1864), foreman in
112-583: Is named after the famous Victorian microscopist Professor John Thomas Quekett , and is the second oldest organisation in the world dedicated to microscopy; the oldest is the Royal Microscopical Society . Some of the traditions of the Club’s Victorian founders are continued, but the Quekett is now very much a friendly club for today’s microscopists and covers all aspects of the subject ranging from
128-646: The Linnean Society was granted in June 1873. The duties of this post included the delivery of lectures. He also lectured in many parts of the country, and went on a lecturing tour in Australia during 1885. With failing health, Taylor found himself in financial difficulties and was compelled to resign his post in 1893. He died in Ipswich on 28 September 1895. He married on 22 January 1867, at Stoke Holy Cross, Sarah Harriet, youngest daughter of William Bellamy, headmaster of
144-468: The Club on Friday 7 July 1865 for the purpose of establishing the Club to "give amateurs the opportunity of assisting each other, holding monthly meetings in a central locality, at an annual charge to cover incidental expenses". The name agreed was "The Quekett Microscopical Club", 'club' was chosen instead of 'society' to reflect the aims of the association. The first President was Edwin Lankester . The Club
160-503: The Quekett Microscopical Club (available only to members), the peer-reviewed Quekett Journal of Microscopy which has been published in an unbroken run since 1868, and a range of books. Science Gossip Science-Gossip was the common name for two series of monthly popular-science magazines , that were published from 1865 to 1893 and from 1894 to 1902. The first series was called Hardwicke's Science-Gossip , and
176-1018: The history of the microscope and slide collecting to the latest advances in digital imaging with the microscope. Several eminent scientists have been presidents of the Club, including Edwin Lankester (1865–66), Peter le Neve Foster (1869), Lionel Smith Beale (1870–71), Robert Braithwaite (bryologist) (1872–1873), Henry Lee (1875–77), Thomas Henry Huxley (1877–1879), Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1879–80), Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1881–1883), William Benjamin Carpenter (1883–1885), William Dallinger (1889–1892), George Edward Massee (1899–1903), Edward Alfred Minchin (1908–1912) Arthur Dendy (1912–1916), Alfred Barton Rendle (1916–1921), Sir David Prain (1924–1926), William Thomas Calman (1926–1928), John Ramsbottom (1928–1931) and Hamilton Hartridge (1951–1954). Members include amateurs, professionals, beginners and experts with an interest in microscopes, microscopy or microscope slides. Members receive two issues of
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#1732851629110192-579: The scholarly Quekett Journal of Microscopy and two issues of the informal Bulletin of the Quekett Microscopical Club each year. Members have access to a private area of the Club’s website that includes meeting reports, videos of lectures, and galleries of entries from slide and photograph competitions. The Club holds monthly meetings in London for its members, normally in the Natural History Museum , and
208-513: The second series Science-Gossip . succeeded by: From 1865 to 1893 the ( Hardwicke's ) Science-Gossip was published by Robert Hardwicke (London). The first editor was the mycologist Mordecai Cubitt Cooke . In 1872 he was succeeded by John Ellor Taylor , the year in which Taylor became curator of the Ipswich Museum . Taylor had founded a Science-Gossip Society in Norwich in 1868, and in 1869
224-656: Was a popular lecturer on science. In conjunction with John Gunn he established the Norwich Geological Society in 1864. In 1869 Taylor was elected to the Geological Society and also founded the Ipswich Science Gossip Society. The following year he founded a second Science Gossip Society in Norwich. In 1872 he was appointed by Ipswich Corporation as curator of the Ipswich Museum . Fellowship of
240-538: Was bound apprentice as a fitter and turner at the same works. Encouraged by the locomotive superintendent, John Ramsbottom , Taylor applied himself to Latin, Greek, and the natural sciences, and when seventeen began to attend evening classes at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute . A year later he became lay preacher for the Wesleyans , but on account of his scientific opinions he had to abandon his notion of becoming
256-585: Was then assisted by Miss F. Winstone. After a few successful years the publication failed, probably for economic reasons. This was perhaps regretted most by people who read it at society meetings and never bought their own copies. The idea underlying Science-Gossip was to provide for scientific studies what Notes and Queries provides for literary studies. Science Gossip is cited over 100 times in Alfred Cotgreave's 1900 contents-subject index. This science and technology magazine–related article
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