Drawings, muscular fibre by [Frederic Carpenter Skey?]

Description

Plate 17, figure 1 and three unpublished figures showing a muscular fibre with continuous striae. Only the figures marked B and C appear in the published plate. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Ink inscription at top reads 'A Fibre of Animal life, with continuous striae and tubular extremities' [corrected in pencil to 'extremity'] and 'B Do [Ditto] with interrupted striae, presenting a polygonal appearance. Magnified 600 times'. '600' is struck out in pencil and corrected to '400'. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Anatomy / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the elementary structure of the muscular fibre of animal and organic life' by Frederic Carpenter Skey.

Received by the Royal Society on 8 June 1837. Read 15 June 1837.

Reference number

PT/74/4/8

Earliest possible date

1837

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

1 page

Format

Drawing