Snow crystals
Date
1931
After
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865 - 1931, American) , Meteorologist
Object type
Library reference
R66591
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 215mm
width (page): 135mm
width (page): 135mm
Subject
Description
Photomicrograph of 21 snow crystal specimens, 12 above and 9 below.
Inscribed: 'FIG. 15 AND 16. Photographs of Snow-flakes
By W. A. Bentley.
Fig. 15, Star-forms; Fig. 16, Plate-forms.'
Plate VI from Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton’s The high alps: a natural history of ice and snow (London: Kegan Paul, 1931).
Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton (1864-1938), British crystallographer and alpinist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865-1931), also known as Snowflake Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer, was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features.
Inscribed: 'FIG. 15 AND 16. Photographs of Snow-flakes
By W. A. Bentley.
Fig. 15, Star-forms; Fig. 16, Plate-forms.'
Plate VI from Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton’s The high alps: a natural history of ice and snow (London: Kegan Paul, 1931).
Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton (1864-1938), British crystallographer and alpinist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865-1931), also known as Snowflake Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer, was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features.
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