Quekett Microscopical Club
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The Quekett Microscopical Club is an association for microscopy founded in London in 1865. It is aimed at both amateurs and professional microscopy practitioners.
It is the second oldest microscopy society after the Royal Microscopical Society .
The Society was founded by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke , Thomas Ketteringham and Witham Bywater and others , following a letter to the editor from W. Gibson in the Science Gossip of May 1865 , and had its first meeting in July 1865. They were named after the Victorian practitioner and popularizer of microscopy John Thomas Quekett .
The company publishes the Quekett Journal of Microscopy and a bulletin. Members meet monthly at the Natural History Museum .
The presidents also included well-known scientists, including Edwin Lankester (President 1865–66), Lionel Smith Beale (1870–71), Henry Lee (1875–77), Thomas Henry Huxley (1877–79), Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1879– 80), Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1881–83), William Benjamin Carpenter (1883–85), William Dallinger (1889–92), George Edward Massee (1899–1903), Arthur Dendy (1911–16), Alfred Barton Rendle ( 1916-21), Sir David Prain (1924-26), William Thomas Calman (1926-28), John Ramsbottom (1928-31) and Hamilton Hartridge (1951-54).