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    Lobster egg development

    Date
    1843
    Creator
    Michel Pius Erdl (1815 - 1848, German) , Anatomist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X346/6
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 271mm
    width (print): 206mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Embryological studies of the lobster, showing stages of development from egg to fry with some structural details.

    Plate 3 figures 1-17 from the monograph Entwicklung des hummereies von den ersten veranderungen im dotter an bis zur reife des embryo, by M.P.Erdl (Munich, 1843). The accompanying list of figures of the marine crustacean is headed: “Hummereier aus verschiedenen Entwicklungsstadien” [Lobster eggs at various stages of development]. Not signed or inscribed.

    Michel Pius Erdl was a Professor at the University of Munich.
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