Images Dated 30th October 2007

Pollination, SEM

Pollination. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of part of a flower's pistil with pollen grains attached. The pistil is the female reproductive part of a flower, comprising one or more carpels. Here, many carpels (projections) can be seen with pollen grains (balls) attached to the sticky tips of each carpel, called stigmas. Each carpel comprises a stigma, a style (the projection between stigma and ovary), and an ovary containing eggs (not seen). Pollen, the male sex cells of a flowering plant, lands on the stigma and burrows down through the style to reach the ovary at the style's base. It then fertilises the ovum there, forming a seed

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Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952), English author, early 20th century

Jeffery Farnol (1878-1952), English author, early 20th century. Farnol, along with Georgette Heyer, was responsible for the Regency romantic genre of novel writing

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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), English physicist and writer, early 20th century

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), English physicist and writer, early 20th century. Lodge was involved in the development of the wireless telegraph

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