Painting, Lumbricus marinus [lugworm] dissected by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/6/4
Date: 1816
Description
Plate 3, figure 2 showing a dissected lugworm. Inscribed upper left 'laid open on the Back between the Branchiae.' The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnæus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 7 November 1816.
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- PT/73/6/4
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- 1816
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- Ink wash on paper
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- Painting
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, Lumbricus marinus [lugworm] dissected by [William Clift], 1816, PT/73/6/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_6_4/painting-lumbricus-marinus-lugworm-dissected-by-william-clift, accessed on 16 July 2025
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An account of the circulation of the blood in the class vermes of linnæus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0046
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I. An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnæus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1817
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0001
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 107
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