In that treasure trove of old documents from my mother, I found this little surprise: she’d also saved one of my extra figures from my research at the University of Oregon, the stuff that led to me working with Judith Eisen.
Photograph of horseradish peroxidase labeled spinal motoneurons
That’s another oldie — Mom must have asked what the heck I was doing in the lab, and I gave her an old print and tried to explain it to her. And she salted it away for 40 years!
First class piece of early surrealism?
My first thought was…snow. It looks like a snowbank with holes made by critters who discovered that the inside of a snowbank is a nice snug place to spend a night in comparison to the sub-arctic open air.
Sagittal section through the spinal cord. Notochord is the clear area at the bottom, muscle fibers are the striated stuff on top, the pebbly texture is all the cells of the spinal cord, with two labeled with a dark stain.
Nah, it still looks like two trees on a snowy field, as drawn by John Miro.
Raging Bee @4. Thanks; that’s whom I saw and thought of in the book from ACC art.