Studies in Microscopical Science Vol. I - Brief Biographies
Martin James Cole (co-author of Modern Microscopy - Cross & Cole) born 1848 died 1928.
He was the son of Arthur C. Cole.
Joined Quekett Microscopical Club in 1883.
Educated in Rouen, he joined the Mercantile Marine.
He became a lecturer in Microscopy at the Birkbeck Institute.
Addresses:- 27 Chancery Lane
1 Maze Villas, Priory Bank, Kew (1887)
24 Chancery Lane (1897).
Made mounts for Watsons as well as selling his own labelled mounts.
Articles in Watsons Microscope Record - The Preparation and Mounting of Hepatics and Mycetozoa - May 1926 (No. 8)
Professor M. F. Heddle (author of 3 parts).
Matthew Forster Heddle (b.1828 - d.1897 St. Andrews)
Father - Robert Heddle - A merchant/trader who made his fortune trading in Senegal, West Africa, from whence he returned to Hoy in 1818.
From Orkney lineage, Matthew Forster Heddle grew up at Melsetter, Hoy in the Orkneys.
Both his parents were dead by the time he was 14, when he, his brother Robert and his two sisters were taken care of by three appointed guardians.
Heddle attended The Edinburgh Academy followed by the Murchiston Castle Academy where he is recorded as being a pupil for the years 1842-44.
Goodchild (1897) wrote - 'It was at this stage of his carrer that he seems to have begun to develop that propensity for collecting which became his dominant characteristic in later life'.
He bagan collections of Shells and Plants, but follwing an accident to his herbarium (when it fell into a river) he began to collect rocks instead.
At 16 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a medical student, on graduation leaving Scotland for Germany where he studied Chemistry and Mineralogy in both Clausthal and Freiberg.
On his return to Edinburgh he resumed an academic life and graduated M.D. in 1851. (Interestingly his thesis was entitled 'The Ores of the Metals' - a copy of his thesis exists in the Library of the Royal Scottish Museum).
His next step was to work as a Doctor, his practice being in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh.
This evidently didn't suit him and an offer of Assistant to the Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews (Professor Connell) provided an opportunity to give up his practice.
In 1862 Professor Connell retired from the post and Heddle suceeded him.
This same year saw Heddle making a trip to the Faroes where he collected extensively and accumulated an impressive collection of Zeolites.
At about this period Heddle married.
1864 saw Heddle sufficiently renowned to be invited to edit and revise 'The Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland' (Greg and Lettsom, 1858).BR>
The years 1856-1884 were his most active in the Mineralogical field, and indeed the period during which he ammassed what is now The Heddle Collection of Scottish Minerals.
Sometimes his methods were crude, using dynamite and sledge hammers to collect minerals from around Scotland.
He worked diligently on his mineralogical studies and a monograph was published
posthumously entitled 'The Mineralogy of Scotland'.
Much of the information above was gleaned from an article about him in The Edinburgh Geologist (by Harry Macpherson) No. 4. November 1978.
John Ernest Ady (author of most of Vol. I).
There was an Ernest Ady, M.A. as a member of Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society in 1881, address given as The Mason College.
Also George Ernest Adye author of Modern Lithology who is quoted as being the same
person who wrote the stuff in Studies in Microscopical Science.
A bit of an anomaly here as Cole refers to J. E. Ady as author of all but three parts of Microscopical Science Vol I, and Ernest Howard Adye - author of Modern Lithology - also refers to himself in that volume as author of such.
In Science Gossip July 1883 is a small notice of Mr. J. E. Ady’s ‘The Methods of Microscopical Research.’
Which also mentions his contributions to Cole’s Studies in Microscopical Science.
Science Gossip December 1883 Microscopy section -‘A New Morphological Institution. - We understand that a Morphological Laboratory is about to be instituted in London by Mr. John Ernest Ady, whom most of our readers will remember as the author of Vol. I. Of the "Studies in Microscopical Science", nominally edited by Mr. Arthur C. Cole, the well-known object mounter, who prepared the slides in illustration of that work. At present the laboratory is limited to the production of microscopical preparations, and especially of rock and mineral sections, in which latter Mr. Ady has the co-operation of perhaps the most efficient preparer in Great Britain, Mr. H. Hensoldt. Messrs Ady and Hensoldt propose to issue a series of rock sections, with explanatory etched diagrams and letterpress descriptions, early next January. No fewer that twenty-four exquisitely prepared specimens, accompanied with copious notes and sketches, and issued fortnightly, will be furnished to subscribers for a sum of a guinea and a half. As the supply of the work can be but limited to about one hundred copies, we strongly recommend our readers to make an early application. This limitation we hear is compulsory, because the labour requisite for the production of a greater number of specimens cannot be secured. The laboratory will include an educational, and an exchange and mart department. For further information, we refer our readers to 7, Machell Road, Nunhead, London, S.E.’Science Gossip January 1884 Article -Microscopical Technology - On the Exhibition of Canada Balsam - by John Ernest Ady.Science Gossip January 1884‘Mr. Thomas Bolton, the well-known and enterprising provider of microscopic material, has sent us a copy of his "Popular account of the Fish’s Nest". It is illustrated by sketches showing the development of the stickleback from its earliest stage in the egg, and is accompanied by a notice of the anatomy of the fish by Mr. J. E. Ady.’Science Gossip January 1884‘Studies in Microscopic Science. - Edited by A. C. Cole, F.R.M.S. - We very much regret that in the paragraph in our last issue on "A New Morphological Institution" we inadvertently over-stated the relationships which existed between Mr. A. C. Cole and Mr. J. E. Ady, in the first volume of this admirable work, which was so well done, and so thoroughly successful from all points, literary, scientific, and artistic, that we deem it a great pity any difference of opinion should exist among those who contributed to so great a success. We inadvertently stated that M. Ady was the actual and Mr. A. C. Cole the nominal editor; whereas the legal status of the relationship was that Mr. Ady edited the "Studies", under "the advice and direction" of Mr. Cole. Mr. Cole’s name appeared all through as editor, and the weekly parts of the 2nd vol. now issuing, also bear his name as editor. The preface to the first volume states that all the articles except three were written by Mr. J. E. Ady. This much, however, appears certain, that to Mr. Cole belongs the credit and honour of bringing out the "Studies"
Science Gossip January 1884 ‘Microscopy Sample Slides. - We have received two of the slides by Messrs. Ady & Hensoldt, as advertised in our columns. One of them is a double object, containing both longitudinal and a transverse section of the compact tissue of the middle of the shaft of the human humerous, mounted in gum and Canada Balsam; and the other a section of Eozoonal white Serpentine, recently discovered by Dr. Heddle, in Sutherlandshire. These specimens approach the best style of mounting we have yet seen, and if the new Morphological Laboratory continues to send forth slides of this character it cannot fail soon to command general attention.’
James W. Watson.
Cole, Arthur. C., F.R.M.S.
Arthur Charles Cole.
b. 1821 d. 24th December 1900 (Senile decay) 79 years old. At 21 Chatts Road. The death was notified by H. Pearce, Occupier 21 Chatts Road, Battersea. Who was H. Pearce? There was a Horace Pearce F.L.S. of Stourbridge who had an article in Science Gossip September 1882 Botany section ‘Dispersion of seeds.’. One assumes that the onset of this was the reason he seems to have disappeared circa 1890. I wonder what happened to the son who advertised with him! (There was a Horace Pearce, The Limes, Stourbridge advertising in Science Gossip March 1876, F.G.S. in 1882 in Science Gossip of July Article - Glacial Action in North Wales.).
Member of Postal Microscopical Society 1881 - 1889
Joined Quekett Microscopical Club 1876
Elected to Royal Microscopical Society 1879
Hon. Member of Microscopical Society of Liverpool 1881, member from 1873.
Portrait in The Microscope Vol. VII. No. 11 January/February 1950 page 309
Cousin of Arthur Cottam.
Address
1870 66 St. Domingo Vale, Anfield, Liverpool
1881-1887 St. Domingo House, 53 Oxford Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W.
1888 - 1889 St. Domingo House, 171 Ladbrooke Grove Road, Notting Hill, London, W.
In 1888 recorded as an Honorary Member of the Liverpool Microscopical Society
Slides normally bear a little crest bearing a Bulls head, surrounded by the words ‘Cole Deum’ which means Worship God. Achieved a Prize Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1867.
Author of the weekly publication ‘Studies in Microscopical Science’ beginning on May 6th 1882. Each issue came with a slide (one of which is illustrated) and was priced at 1s for the tx and slide
Author of - Popular Microscopical Studies - London 1883-4
Studies in Microscopical Science 4 Volumes 1883-1886.
The methods of Microscopical Research 1884
Science Gossip December 1880/February 1881/May 1881, November 1881 inside front cover Advertisement as ‘Arthur C. Cole, F.R.M.S., and Son.’ At St. Domingo House, 53 Oxford Gardens, Notting Hill, London, W.
Science Gossip January 1872 Exchanges column -
‘Choice slides of selected Diatomaceae in exchange for unmounted and unprepared insects in perfect condition, and properly preserved in spirit or otherwise. - Address Arthur C. Cole, 66, St. Domingo Vale, Everton, Liverpool.’
The advertisement below appeared on the back cover of The quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science - July 1878

In the Northern Microscopist July 1882 a review of the next four Studies in Microscopical science and also ‘Starches. - A series of twenty four sections of starch bearing vegetables and starch granules has been sent out by Mr. A. C. Cole, F.R.M.S., for the use of botanical students. We have been favoured with a set of these preparations, which demonstrate very clearly the forms of the starches, the manner in which they are borne in the plant, and show us clearly that very different means must be employed for preparing the various kinds in a state of purity'
Science Gossip January 1884
‘Studies in Microscopic Science. - Edited by A. C. Cole, F.R.M.S. - We very much regret that in the paragraph in our last issue on "A New Morphological Institution" we inadvertently over-stated the relationships which existed between Mr. A. C. Cole and Mr. J. E. Ady, in the first volume of this admirable work, which was so well done, and so thoroughly successful from all points, literary, scientific, and artistic, that we deem it a great pity any difference of opinion should exist among those who contributed to so great a success. We inadvertently stated that M. Ady was the actual and Mr. A. C. Cole the nominal editor; whereas the legal status of the relationship was that Mr. Ady edited the "Studies", under "the advice and direction" of Mr. Cole. Mr. Cole’s name appeared all through as editor, and the weekly parts of the 2nd vol. now issuing, also bear his name as editor. The preface to the first volume states that all the articles except three were written by Mr. J. E. Ady.
This much, however, appears certain, that to Mr. Cole belongs the credit and honour of bringing out the "Studies"
Present at a Royal Microscopical Society meeting 27th November 1889 exhibiting - Transverse Section of Human Left Median Nerve, stained for Photomicrography; and photograph of same slide. Optical Vesical of a Human Embryo in the sixth week. T.S.
In Nature 29th November 1906 is an Advertisement for the publication Studies in Micropetrography by Ernest Howard Adye, M.A., Ph.D. which lists other books by the same author and includes ‘Cole’s "Studies in Microscopical Science Vol. I’.
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