The Microscopical Society of Ireland (MSI) is a learned society for the promotion of

microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of micr ...

in Ireland. It was founded in 1975 as the ''Irish Society For Electron Microscopy'' and held its first

symposium In ancient Greece, the symposium ( grc-gre, συμπόσιον ''symposion'' or ''symposio'', from συμπίνειν ''sympinein'', "to drink together") was a part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was acc ...

the following year at University College Dublin, an event they have held every year since 1979. It shares the

Journal of Microscopy The ''Journal of Microscopy'' is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Royal Microscopical Society which covers all aspects of microscopy including spatially resolved spectroscopy, compositional mapping, and image analysis. This ...

with the Royal Microscopical Society as its official journal. The society is the member organisation of the

European Microscopy Society The European Microscopy Society is an international learned society which represents the field of microscopy in Europe. It was founded in 1998 following the disbanding of the ''Committee of European Societies of Electron Microscopy'' (which was ...

representing the island of Ireland.

Earlier societies

There existed previously a Microscopical Society of Dublin formed in November 1840. Irish civil engineer

Thomas Fleming Bergin Thomas Fleming Bergin was an early Irish railway official. He was the Company Clerk of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR), the first public railway in Ireland. He was also responsible for the design of the ''Bergin Patent Spring Buffer'', t ...

was the president of this society 1842.

References

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