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

Inventory Number 12068


Item type
Object
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.'.
Physical material
Paper
Card
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.