Drawing, muscles, tracheae, and nervous system by [George Newport]
Reference number: PT/74/3/26
Date: 1836
Description
Plate 37 showing a magnified view of the muscles, tracheae, and nervous system of the posterior portion of a body in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh segments of an unspecified insect. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Entomology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the respiration of insects' by George Newport.
Received and read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1836.
- Reference number
- PT/74/3/26
- Earliest possible date
- 1836
- Physical description
- Graphite on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Drawing
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Related Publications
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XXIV. On the respiration of insects External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1836
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1836.0026
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On the respiration of insects External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1837
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0253
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1834-1840
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 126
1835-1836 Reference number: PT/74/3
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