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The Hudson Transparencies. Robin Wootton, Exeter University - 0 views

  • The Hudson Transparencies
  • 58 transparencies, in the possession of the University of Exeter, were created by Hudson to illustrate his lectures
  • Each is c. 96cm high by 76cm wide
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  • designed to be illuminated from behind in a darkened
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Exeter biologist rediscovers 'forgotten' 19th century illustrations - 0 views

  • unique collection of nineteenth century visual teaching aids belonging to the University of Exeter has been rediscovered after more than six decades
  • created by local naturalist Charles Thomas Hudson FRS to illustrate his lectures
  • They are framed paintings of microscopic animals and plants, all masked with thick brown paper
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  • When backlit in a darkened room the transparencies are transformed
  • illuminating the various organisms
  • have been kept in a dark room in the University’s Hatherly Laboratories since the 1960s.
  • storage conditions have proved ideal and the collection is still in excellent condition.
  • University of Exeter zoologist Dr. Robin Wootton, whose cataloguing project has brought the slides out of obscurity
  • painstakingly photographed each individual painting, using Photoshop Elements to optimise lighting and visibility.
  • the history of the transparencies
  • the University had acquired them from a Mrs F.R. Rowley on the death of her husband
  • in the late 1930s
  • it is possible that he may have known Hudson personally
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