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Drawings, Zoca gigas by [John Obadiah Westwood]

Reference number: PT/74/2/4

Date: 1835

Description

Plate 4a, figures 1-14 showing the anatomy of the Zoca gigas [Urocerus gigas?]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Auctor delt.' Backing sheet watermarked 'J Rump 1833'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the supposed existence of metamorphoses in the crustacea' by John Obadiah Westwood.

Received by the Royal Society on 25 May 1835. Read 18 June 1835.

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PT/74/2/4
Earliest possible date
1835
Physical description
Ink on paper; pasted onto backing sheet
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

Creator name

John Obadiah Westwood

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John Obadiah Westwood, Drawings, Zoca gigas by [John Obadiah Westwood], 1835, PT/74/2/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_2_4/drawings-zoca-gigas-by-john-obadiah-westwood, accessed on 07 October 2026

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