146 PICTURING MIRACLES 



We could see the shadow, looking through the bud, 

 of the numerous petals gradually opening; other 

 movements going on that required more careful 

 analyzing to determine what caused them than we 

 could give in that short time, but still would not 

 have shown if taken at shorter intervals than the 

 five minutes allotted. To get the full scientific value 

 of the picture, it must be seen several times with the 

 eye centered on one thing at one time and on an- 

 other, the next. Only in that way can you get the 

 full story of what a picture of that kind shows. This 

 was well illustrated in another picture of the nucleus 

 in a pollen tube. I had seen it countless times the 

 eye always on the nucleus. Suddenly, I saw a second 

 nucleus preceding the first one. Now every time I 

 show that picture, I see it as plainly almost as the 

 larger one. 



This work of developing, reducing and printing 

 this first X-ray motion picture took five days. In the 

 interval both cameras were running on other sub- 

 jects. I had not paid much attention to the roses I 

 had worked on except set them aside, when I sud- 

 denly noticed the X-rayed blossom was still almost 

 perfect, while on the other, taken in the usual way, 

 the petals had fallen and the haw was forming. Still 

 it did not make much impression on my mind, al- 

 though they were the same kind of roses and of equal 



