Visualising the Cell Nucleus
Leaf growth
Cell growth
Cell organelles and cytoplasm visualisation
Cell membrane and cell wall growth
Dicotyledon* stem cross-section
Woody cells of conifer
Monocotyledon* stem cross-section
These fabulous botanical microanatomy plates constitute the total of illustrations present in 'Anatomia Vegetal' by Frederik Elfving (1929) and published by FE Wachsmuth (Leipzig) which is online at La Biblioteca Virtual de Patrimonio Bibliográfico from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
Elfving (1854-1942) was a professor of botany at the University of Helsinki. There are a couple of books at the Internet Archive about a voyage to North America to which he contributed.
Apparently there is descriptive text to accompany the illustration plates but it doesn't appear to have been digitised.
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5 comments :
amazing :)
so so beautiful! graçias BiblioOdyssey y Biblioteca…Bibliográfico!
…across the tumblrverse, jai Guru Deva (Elfving) om…
OK supersmartypants, you get a refund of the entrance fee for that. Heh.
This book has got to be a designers source material dream.
Really wonderful and inspiring! Your blog is full of amazing things :)
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