Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings early needlepoint Color and surface fantastic

Color and surface fantastic

I'd guess it dates to the 1920s or so

including that little sight at the end of the barrel

Though made as a teaching toy for kids

Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings early needlepoint Color and surface fantasticThis is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings, done for biology class I presume, by a young Eva Ferguson was very very meticulous in her work! Sixteen pages of drawings, most with thin tissue paper separating them, detailing everything from the microbial structure of an amoeba, to the ray of a starfish in cross section, to a ruminant stomach (mammalian), to the exterior of a crustacean, to various leaf structures. All very precisely rendered