Paintings, Vibrio tritici nemotode worms by Franz [Andreas] Bauer

Description

Plate 2 containing figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 shows a group of worms of the wheat gall nemotode [Anguina tritici] in water and seen in the microscope field at x100 magnification. Figure 2 shows living and decaying worms in water x200 magnifcation. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' and in pencil lower right 'Js [James] Basire sc.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. Microscopical observations on the suspension of the muscular motions of the vibrio tritici' by Franz Bauer.

Read to the Royal Society on 5 December 1822.

Reference number

PT/73/10/2

Earliest possible date

1822

Physical description

Watercolour on artists' board

Page extent

1 page

Format

Watercolour

Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library

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