Cross cutting of sarsaparilla plant. Photographer: Fisher
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Genre: Scientific Photography Circular image. Photomicrograph, showing 'a transverse cutting of the stem of the Smilax sarsaparilla, or simply, the Sarsaparilla, a plant much appreciated by the microscopist, on account of the beautiful specimens with which its wood furnishes his cabinet...'
Mandibles, or outer jaws of common spider. Photographer: Fisher
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Genre: Scientific Photography Circular image. Photomicrograph of the mandible of a spider, 'which may, we think, be properly classed with the wonders of the microscope, although derived from that much-despised and even loathed intruder upon the human dwelling - the common spider (Tegenaria dome...