- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Andrew Pringle
- Provenance
- Royal Microscopical Society. Given to the Society by G. F. Dowdeswell in 1890.
- Primary inscriptions
- Front of card inscribed: 'Spermatozoa, human, showing very fine filament on the head in two corpuscles. very deeply stained & photographed to show this process. / Andrew Pringle. photod. x1000. / The Royal Microscopical Society from G. F. Dowdeswell. Octr. 1890.'.
- Inventory No
- 12067
Description
Early gelatine print, cut circular, mounted on card. Showing human spermatozoa x1000. Companion of 12068.
Andrew Pringle's new photomicrographic apparatus was described to the RMS meeting of June 18, 1890, published in the Journal, pp.543-547, illustrated between pp.666-7. He went on to write several textbooks on photomicrography.
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