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Drawings, vascular tissue and cytoblasts in Coralliidae by S W Leonard

Reference number: PT/75/2/12

Date: 1842

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Plate 16, figures 3-4 and plate 17, figures 1-4 and 8 (labelled here as figures 3-4, 9-12, and 16) showing vascular tissue and cytoblasts in various Coralliidae, including the Cellepora pumicosa, the Millepora alcicornis [sea ginger], and the Acacia ampliata [acacia tree]. Inscribed with publication and plate details recto and verso. Graphite inscription verso reads 'J. S. Bowerbank, 45 Park Street, Islington'. Not signed.

Subject: Marine Biology / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the organic tissues in the bony structure of the Corallidæ' by James Scott Bowerbank.

Received by the Royal Society on 19 April 1842. Read 21 April 1842.

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PT/75/2/12
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1842
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Ink and watercolour on artists' board
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2 pages
Format
Drawing

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James Scott Bowerbank

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James Scott Bowerbank, Drawings, vascular tissue and cytoblasts in Coralliidae by S W Leonard, 1842, PT/75/2/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_2_12/drawings-vascular-tissue-and-cytoblasts-in-coralliidae-by-s-w-leonard, accessed on 23 January 2026

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