| RefNo | PT/32/3/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, water vapours and droplets viewed through microscope by Augustus Volney Waller |
| Date | 12 April 1846 |
| Description | Plate containing figures 1-8 showing water vapours from breath and steam, water droplets, and frozen water droplets viewed through a microscope. Canada balsam and castor oil are used to preserve the water droplets.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Microscopic observations on the so-called vesicular vapours of water, as existing in the vapours of steam, and in clouds, &c'.
Written by Waller in Kensington [London]. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget. Received by the Royal Society on 13 April 1846. Read 16 June 1846. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0098 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1847.0003 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/32/3 |
| PT/32/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5239 | Waller; Augustus Volney (1816 - 1870) | 1816 - 1870 |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |