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Issue 25: November 1997
The second anniversary issue of Micscape

Next update December 13th
with topical news throughout the month



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Articles This Month - includes special features on spiders
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The garden spider - why it doesn't get stuck in its own web
The leaping dancer - the jumping spider
Rendezvous at Renesse - British and Dutch amateur 'scopers meet up
Nature's little helpers - antibiotics and Brownian motion
Microscopy around the home - studying Brownian motion (complements above)
Magic windows - making slides for viewing between crossed polars
Image of the month - zygospore of the desmid Staurodesmus
An uncommon British desmid - desmids are attractive algae

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