Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10387
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Venus’s flower basket
Date
1878
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X346/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 171mm
width (print): 125mm
height (paper support): 271mm
width (paper support): 206mm
width (print): 125mm
height (paper support): 271mm
width (paper support): 206mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of the sponge Euplectella aspergillum, known as Venus’s flower-basket. The sponge became a novelty and a wedding gift in Victorian England since it was frequently home to a pairing of male and female shrimps.
Plate from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules..., by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is not inscribed.
William Chimmo (1828-1891) Royal Navy Captain and hydrographer dredged for these marine creatures off the Philippine Islands.
Plate from the monograph On Euplectella aspergillum. Also on a new form of globigerina; phosphorescent animalcules..., by William Chimmo (London, Taylor and Francis, 1878). The plate is not inscribed.
William Chimmo (1828-1891) Royal Navy Captain and hydrographer dredged for these marine creatures off the Philippine Islands.
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