Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11674

    Venus slipper

    Date
    1885
    Creator
    John Denis Macdonald (1826 - 1908) , Naval medical officer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 218mm
    width (print): 190mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological study of Cymbulia peronii, the gastropod known as the Venus slipper. The author stated that his specimens were brought from the Indian Ocean.

    Proof illustration accompanying the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the general characters of the Genus Cymbulia’, by John D. Macdonald, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.251-253. The final figure was printed on p.252 of the published paper.

    Sir John Denis MacDonald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.
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