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Drawings, Carcinus maenas larva nearing adult form by [Charles Spence Bate]

Reference number: PT/75/7/49

Date: 1857

Description

Plate 44, figure G showing Carcinus maenas [shore crab] larva nearing its adult form. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Struck-out sketches of several further larva specimens appear verso. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology / Marine Biology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the development of decapod crustacea' by Charles Spence Bate.

Received by the Royal Society on 1 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.

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PT/75/7/49
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1857
Physical description
Graphite and ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Drawing

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Charles Spence Bate

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Charles Spence Bate, Drawings, Carcinus maenas larva nearing adult form by [Charles Spence Bate], 1857, PT/75/7/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_7_49/drawings-carcinus-maenas-larva-nearing-adult-form-by-charles-spence-bate, accessed on 09 December 2024

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