Natural science - 116 diapositives.
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
Images of astronomical phenomena, planets, stars, etc. mostly dated and with label a.o. : "Lick Observatory astro. photos" : the moon in different phases (1890, 1892), the sun (1893), Jupiter (1892), Lunar Alps, total solar eclipse (1893), clusters in Perseus, Nebecula Major (1893). Images of microscopic cells, parasites, insects, etc. : bees, mosquito, scabies, trichocephalus, acarus, cristallisations of acids, etc. Images of micrococci, diplococci and streptococci, from the Bacillus Tuberculosis, the Spirillum Cholera, the Bacteria Pneumonia and the Bacillus Typhoid, etc. Images of diatoms (a major group of algae) : cascinodiscus, triceratium, licmophora,... Some diapositives with handwritten text explaining the collection : "These Photomicrographic Latern Slides have been made from direct negatives (...)". "Instituto Micrografico Italiano"."Beernaert's", "Cappellini", "E.G. Wood", "Instituto Micrografico", "Molteni". We join : 41 images of dogs and fish.
