Object within Schaaf no. 2332

Leaf of a fern, possibly taken by solar microscope

Created: 8 Jan 1840

Image size: h 8.1cm x w 5.7cm

Paper size: h 12.0cm x w 7.3cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: brown paper album page

Physical description: very irregular trim to negative

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-0365/19

Collection: Science Museum Collection

Keywords: Botany

Part of a frond of Adiantum species (Pteridaceae), otherwise known as, Maidenhair fern.