Micro Photography Gallery

Crysotile asbestos

Scanning electron micrograph of 5-Fold symmetry in crysotile asbestos. Magnification on the 5'x4 transparency = X 600, 000. Credit to the Natural History Museum and Barbara Cressey of the University of Southampton

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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Fagus sylvatica, European beech pollen

Scanning electron microscope picture (X1500) showing a pollen grain as seen from the side. The image shows one of the three laterally-placed aperture furrows with a small pore in the centre (trizonocolporate)

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

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