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Drawings, stem and sprout of Campanularia dichotoma by [Joseph Jackson Lister]

Reference number: PT/74/1/10

Date: 1833

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Plate 9, figures A, B, C, and C2 showing a stem and new sprout of a Campanularia dichotoma [Obelia dichotoma]. Smaller sprouts appearing next to A have been struck out. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1833'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Some observations on the structure and functions of tubular and cellular polypi, and of ascidiæ' by Joseph Jackson Lister.

Received by the Royal Society on 1 January 1834. Read 6 and 13 March 1834.

Reference number
PT/74/1/10
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1833
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Graphite on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Joseph Jackson Lister

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Joseph Jackson Lister, Drawings, stem and sprout of Campanularia dichotoma by [Joseph Jackson Lister], 1833, PT/74/1/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_1_10/drawings-stem-and-sprout-of-campanularia-dichotoma-by-joseph-jackson-lister, accessed on 17 July 2025

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