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Image number: RS.10431
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Marine invertebrates of the Arctic seas
Date
1835
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
27714
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Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 270mm
width (print): 180mm
width (print): 180mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Examples of marine crustacea (decapoda) and mollusca (cephalopoda) observed on the Ross Arctic expedition, 1829-33. Figure 1: Rossia palpebrosa (Warty Bobtail Squid); figure 2: Hippolite sowerbei (shrimp); figure 3: Hippolite borealis (shrimp); figures 4-7: Acanthosoma hystrix; figures 8-12: details of Acanthonotus cristatus.
Plate B, facing p.lxxxiii of the Natural History appendix to the Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829 ... 1833, by Sir John Ross (London, 1835).
John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage. John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to England.
Plate B, facing p.lxxxiii of the Natural History appendix to the Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829 ... 1833, by Sir John Ross (London, 1835).
John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage. John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to England.
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