I happened upon a lovely paper by George Roberts in the Bulletin of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University, published in June 1911. The paper has the very promising title “Blowing Stumps with Dynamite”, and it does not disappoint. Its concluding two figures are classics. Here they are:
David Maddison
The Subulate Palpomere 
I really like this post – as well as the commercial advertisements below it! 🙂
I don’t see the commercial advertisements, maybe because I am blog owner – now I wish I did!
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