Drawings, 'Fibre' [blood corpuscles and muscular fibres] by [Martin Barry]

Description

Plate 10, figures 120-143 showing blood corpuscles and fibres from various plants and animals including a tadpole, a turtle, a dandelion [Leontodon taraxacum; Taraxacum officinale], a groundsel [Senecio vulgaris], a nettle [Urtica dioica], a foetal sheep, a chick, a bream, a rabbit, a caterpillar, a gnat, a butterfly, and a spider's web. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Figure numbers originally drawn as various numbers between 83 and 169 in black ink; struck out and rewritten with the correct numbers in red ink. Figures drawn separately and mounted onto backing sheet. Not signed.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On fibre' by Martin Barry.

Received by the Royal Society on 3 December 1841. Read 16 December 1841.

Reference number

PT/75/2/7

Earliest possible date

1841

Physical description

Graphite on paper, mounted on blue board

Page extent

1 page

Format

Drawing