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