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Science 4 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5787, p. 597
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5787.597d
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Figure 1
This vintage 1830 microscope, used by Gregor Mendel, the progenitor of genetics, is one of the items that will be on display starting 15 September at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Mendel, an Augustinian friar, did his groundbreaking research on pea plants in the garden of the Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, then part of the Austrian Empire. He used the instrument, which magnified pollen 179 times, to facilitate pollination of a plant with a single grain--something Darwin and others had said was impossible. The exhibit includes photographs, manuscripts, and Mendel's gardening tools, as well as videos and interactive displays.

CREDIT: THE FIELD MUSEUM




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