Quekett Microscopical Club

It is a registered charity[2] and not-for-profit publisher, with the stated aims of promoting the understanding and use of all aspects of the microscope.

The Club was founded in 1865[3] as a result of a letter from W. Gibson published in Science Gossip in May 1865 suggesting that "some association among the amateur microscopists of London is desirable".

The suggestion was taken up by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Thomas Ketteringham and Witham Bywater, and they met on 14 June 1865 and agreed a provisional committee.

Several eminent scientists have been presidents of the Club, including Edwin Lankester (1865–66), Peter le Neve Foster (1869), Lionel Smith Beale (1870–71), Robert Braithwaite (bryologist) (1872–1873), Henry Lee (1875–77), Thomas Henry Huxley (1877–1879), Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1879–80), Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1881–1883), William Benjamin Carpenter (1883–1885), William Dallinger (1889–1892), George Edward Massee (1899–1903), Edward Alfred Minchin (1908–1912)[4] Arthur Dendy (1912–1916), Alfred Barton Rendle (1916–1921), Sir David Prain (1924–1926), William Thomas Calman (1926–1928), John Ramsbottom (1928–1931) and Hamilton Hartridge (1951–1954).

Members have access to a private area of the Club’s website that includes meeting reports, videos of lectures, and galleries of entries from slide and photograph competitions.