- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Andrew Pringle
- Provenance
- Royal Microscopical Society.
- Primary inscriptions
- Front of card inscribed: 'Spermatozoa, - human - showing fine filament on head, in two corpuscles. / Andrew Pringle. photo.d. x1050 diamrs.'.
- Inventory No
- 12068
Description
Early gelatine print, circular image on rectangular paper (bottom cut to shape), mounted on card. Showing human spermatozoa x1050. Companion of 12067.
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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