Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.20070

    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
    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.
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