Drawing, magnified lamina of cod eye by [Robert Kaye Greville]
Reference number: PT/73/16/3
Date: 1833
Description
Plate 8, figure 2 showing the lamina [nerve fibres] on the lens of a cod eye under magnification, showing two fibres connected through a series of 'teeth'. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Ink inscription verso reads 'of Quadrupeds and Birds'. Not signed.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the anatomical and optical structure of the crystalline lenses of animals, particularly that of the cod' by David Brewster.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 March 1833. Read 9 May 1833.
- Reference number
- PT/73/16/3
- Earliest possible date
- 1833
- Physical description
- Ink and ink wash on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Drawing
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On the anatomical and optical structure of the crystalline lenses of animals, particularly that of the Cod External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0110
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XVI. On the anatomical and optical structure of the crystalline lenses of animals, particularly that of the cod External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1833.0018
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 123
1832-1833 Reference number: PT/73/16
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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