Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the anatomy of the antennae in a small species of crustacean' by John Denis MacDonald
Reference number: AP/34/16
Date: December 1852
Description
Macdonald shares observations on a small crustacean which was found in considerable numbers in the voyage from St Vincent to Rio de Janeiro. There are several anatomical peculiarities mentioned, but Macdonald suggests the most remarkable is the structure of the right antenna of the male. These organs are in the female perfectly symmetrical, and resemble that of the left side in the male; and although in the very young state of the latter sex the right antenna differs but little in external appearance from the left, yet the peculiar hypertrophied condition of the modified segments in the corresponding organ of the adult male is to be distinctly traced in a rudimentary state.
Includes two pages of figures of the antennae in coloured ink.
Subject: Zoology / Carcinology
Received 3 March 1853. Read 7 April 1853. Communicated by Sir William Burnett.
Written by MacDonald aboard H M S Torch, Simon's Bay [South Africa].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Observations on the anatomy of the antennae in a small species of crustacean'.
- Reference number
- AP/34/16
- Earliest possible date
- December 1852
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Drawing
Manuscript
Use this record
Export this record
Citation
John Denis Macdonald, Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the anatomy of the antennae in a small species of crustacean' by John Denis MacDonald, December 1852, AP/34/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_16/unpublished-paper-observations-on-the-anatomy-of-the-antennae-in-a-small-species-of-crustacean-by-john-denis-macdonald, accessed on 06 November 2024
Link to this record
https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_16/unpublished-paper-observations-on-the-anatomy-of-the-antennae-in-a-small-species-of-crustacean-by-john-denis-macdonald
Embed this record
<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/ap_34_16/unpublished-paper-observations-on-the-anatomy-of-the-antennae-in-a-small-species-of-crustacean-by-john-denis-macdonald" title="Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the anatomy of the antennae in a small species of crustacean' by John Denis MacDonald" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>
Related Publications
-
Observations on the anatomy of the antennæ in a small species of crustacean External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0105
Hierarchy
This item is part of:
-
-
Archived papers: volume 34, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1852-1854
1852-1854 Reference number: AP/34
Related Fellows
-
William Burnett
Communicator -
John Denis Macdonald
Author
Explore the collection
-
Archived Papers
Dates: 1768-1989
The 'Archived Papers' collection is comprised of original manuscript scientific papers and letters submitted to the Royal Society which remained unpublished or were abstracted in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society' published from 1830 onwards.View collection