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Photograph (Early Gelatine Print, Photomicrograph) of Spermatozoa, by Andrew Pringle, 1890

Inventory Number 12067


Item type
Object
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.'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
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.