W. Lens Aldous
W. Lens Aldous was an illustrator who reproduced the findings of the early workers in microscopy, and an early member of the Royal Microscopical Society.
![](../I/Head_of_the_Flea_(Lens_Aldous).jpg.webp)
"Head of the Flea"
Lens Aldous lived in the south of London. He worked with J. B. Reade, a pioneer of experimental photography.[1]
His coloured lithograph, 'Head of a Flea', was presented to the Entomological Society of London on 7 May 1838, who adopted it for a poster. Reade's letters to his contemporaries describe how Aldous began his illustrations of microscopy with this illustration, after a drawing, “highly magnified figure of the head of a flea” (1837), derived from his experiments in microscopic photography.[1]
Other works included a portrait of the microscopist and histologist John Thomas Quekett.[2]
References
- R. Derek Wood. Annals of Science, March 1971, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 13-45 Transcript at midley.co.uk
- Boulger, George Simonds (1896). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.