Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11922

    Anatomy of Forskalia

    Date
    1853
    Creator
    Adolf Sauer (German) , Lithographer
    After
    C H Kahlbaum (German) , Illustrator
    E Bittinger (German) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN47172
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 377mm
    width (print): 272mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Anatomical studies of the marine siphonophore Forskalia edwardsii a pelagic colony of zooids. Eleven figures of structural details, including a juvenile (figure 11).

    Plate 2 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.II’. Inscribed below: ‘E. Bittinger u. C.Kahlbaum del. Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. A. Sauer. Forskalia Edwardsii Köll.’

    Albert von Kölliker (1817-1905) Swiss anatomist and physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1860.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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