Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11820

    Saltwater clam, snail and jellyfish

    Date
    1765
    Creator
    J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 405mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Anatomical studies of marine creatures: Figures 1-3 Saltwater clam, possibly the Sand gaper Mya arenaria. Figure 4 unidentified snail, here styled Turbo stagnalis. Figure 5 small jellyfish, life-sized and magnified by microscope.

    Plate 7 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VII’.

    Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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