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Title: The Swingle Plant Anatomy Reference Collection
Url: http://swingle.miami.edu/

Description: 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 digital archive 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.

Classification: Plant anatomy
Plant morphology
Classification: Science
Science -- Biological and life sciences
Science -- Biology
Science -- Informal education
Science -- Instructional issues
Creator: Whitlock, Barbara
Publisher: University of Miami
Data Type: pdf
Language: English
Scout Publication : Scout Report
Date of Scout Publication: 2009-11-20
Archived Scout Publication URL: http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-091120-re.php#1
Date Of Record Release: 2009-11-20 11:26:01
URL Correct: Yes
Date Of Record Creation: 2009-11-20 09:11:58
Date Last Modified: 2009-11-20 11:26:01
Date Record Checked: 2009-11-20
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