Printed Periodical 'Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London', New Series Volume I, and 'Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science', Volume I, 1853

The two journals are bound and were issued together.

Contents include (see separate entry): albumen print page of photomicrographs. This illustrates the paper by Joseph Delves, "On the Application of Photography to the Representation of Microscopic Objects", Transactions pp.57-58, given on October 27, 1852; and is also related to the articles by George Shadbolt, "On the Photographic Delineation of Microscopic Objects by Artificial Illumination", Quarterly Journal pp.165-170, and by Samuel Highley, "On the Practical Application of Photography to the Illustration of Works on Microscopy, Natural History, Anatomy, &c.", Quarterly Journal pp.178-194. Highley was the publisher of the journals, and arranged for the albumen print from Delves's negative to be made by Henneman.