http://swingle.miami.edu/


1. *The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection [pdf]
http://swingle.miami.edu/

Born in 1871 in Pennsylvania, Walter Tennyson Swingle grew up with little
formal schooling, but he ended up working for well over half a century in
the fields of tropical botany and Chinese literature. Created by the
University of Miami Libraries and Professor Barbara Whitlock, this
digitalarchive brings together primary documents, slides, and other
items taken from the Swingle archives. On the homepage, visitors can
look through four primary sections, including the "Plant Anatomy Digital
Archive" and "Plant Anatomy Animations". In the "Plant Anatomy Digital
Archive", visitors can browse over 1700 images from more than 250
species collected from all over the world. Also, visitors can learn
about the challenges involved with maintaining such a collection. Moving
on, the "Plant Anatomy Animations" are utterly fascinating, as they
consist of transforming images of consecutive
microtome sections, providing "a new perspective on how plants are
constructed in three dimensions." The site is rounded out with a section
on Swingle himself, complete with a biography, articles about his work,
and a link to some of his publications. [KMG]

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