Electron miscroscope

You wont be allowed to use it yourself until you have been trained on
it. However, you can learn how to use it with this NASA project;

http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu/

QUOTE Our virtual instrument code currently supports data from three
different instruments in our Microscopy Suite: a Philips
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM), a Fluorescence
Light Microscope, and an Atomic Force Microscope. UNQUOTE

Also, for quite a few things a good optical binocular microscope is
better. There are some Russian instruments available on E-bay, and a
friend of mine has one for sale as well right now. He wants 300 Euros
for it, which is very cheap. All the extras are also contained in tow
large equipment boxes. It is of course calibrated and marked in
Russian, and the handbooks etc are also in Russian, but one can learn
the basics quickly enough if one wishes.

If you are interested just let me know. I have nothing at all to do
with it, I merely happen to kn ow about it, as he knows about some of
my work on feathers and offered it to me for that. I use an
electronic scope connected to one of my computers for this stuff, and
I have practically given up the work now, as there seemed to be little
point in it.

I was also interested in fluorescence and some other light phenomena
in regard to insects and feathers and have some equipment suitable for
this if you are interested?

Regards and best wishes!

Mike Connor