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MICROSCOPICAL BOOKPLATES (EX LIBRIS)
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John Gustav Delly, Scientific Advisor, College of Microscopy, Westmont, IL |
BOOKPLATES OF COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES
The category of colleges and
universities was a bit of a disappointment to me, in that I expected to find
many microscopes, but, in fact, found only two. My personal collection of
college and university bookplates is quite extensive. In surveying many
hundreds of these bookplates, I found only two with microscopes, one from the University of Michigan, and one from the University of Minnesota. Most of the schools use
heraldic devices of some kind. I expected M.I.T. or Cal-Tech, or even a
science library such as The John Crerar Library to have a microscope on its
bookplate, but such was not the case.
One of the University of Michigan bookplates (Figures 15,
16) is a bequest bookplate – that of Ford Messer. The nicely-engraved
microscope and skull suggest a biomedical interest.
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One of the many University of Minnesota Library bookplates,
that honoring Charles August Mann, presented to the Chemistry Library,
contains a microscope in symbolic form, along with a Lamp of Learning,
a plow, and an artist’s palette indicating a common bond between
all of the arts (Figures 17, 18).
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