A selection of striking Victorian images, ranging from a limpet's tongue to the the suckers of a beetle are going on display in Belfast.The images were created by a University of Ulster academic using microscope slides prepared by Victorian microscopists.
At the turn of the last century, viewing such slides with the help of 'magic lanterns' was a popular form of entertainment, but the Victorians could not reproduce the images as colour photographs.
Mr Lowry said many of the Victorian microscope slides in private ownership were starting to deteriorate and he has been trying to record as many as he could for posterity.
Read More
