I’m a big fan of using equipment in ways it wouldn’t have been used to solve a problem, and today’s post is an example of that.
For background, I have a nice microscope diatom strew slide from Bissex Hill, Barbados, which was prepared by JT Norman in 1866. Lovely slide, lost of species, a great to look at. However it has a problem. The coverslip seems to be very th...