Painting, 'Scleratic vessels at the margin of the cornea' by H Holmes
Reference number: PT/75/1/25
Date: 12 August 1840
Description
Plate 16, figure 2 showing blood vessels located in the substance of the scleratic membrane where the cornea attaches, magnified 30x. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 15' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Aug. 12. 1840.'
Subject: Physiology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages' by Joseph Toynbee.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841.
- Reference number
- PT/75/1/25
- Earliest possible date
- 12 August 1840
- Physical description
- Watercolour on artists' paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Watercolour
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Joseph Toynbee, Painting, 'Scleratic vessels at the margin of the cornea' by H Holmes, 12 August 1840, PT/75/1/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_25/painting-scleratic-vessels-at-the-margin-of-the-cornea-by-h-holmes, accessed on 17 April 2025
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XIII. Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1841
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0015
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Researches tending to prove the non-vascularity of certain animal tissues, and to demonstrate the peculiar uniform mode of their organization and nutrition External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0167
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Paper, 'Researches, tending to prove the nonvascularity of certain animal tissues, viz. of articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro cartilage; of the cornea, crystalline lens, and vitreous humour; and of the epidermoid appendages; and to demonstrate the peculiar uniform mode of their organization and nutrition' by Joseph Toynbee
Creator: Joseph Toynbee Reference number: PT/25/6
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840-1859
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 131
1840-1841 Reference number: PT/75/1
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