Brain of the Earthworm
Date
1856
Creator
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817 - 1880) , Anatomist
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 353mm
width (drawing): 228mm
width (drawing): 228mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the brain and associated region of Lumbricus terrestris, the common earthworm.
Unpublished illustration, figure (pencilled ‘Fig.8’) from the manuscript version of the paper “The nervous system of Lumbricus terrestris” by J. Lockhart Clarke, the text abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.8 (1856-1857), pp.343-351.
The sketch is inscribed in ink above: ‘Brain or cephalic ganglion, with pharyngeal collar, pharyngeal chain, and first subventral ganglion’; and below ‘Drawn from nature by the Author’.
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817-1880) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
Unpublished illustration, figure (pencilled ‘Fig.8’) from the manuscript version of the paper “The nervous system of Lumbricus terrestris” by J. Lockhart Clarke, the text abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.8 (1856-1857), pp.343-351.
The sketch is inscribed in ink above: ‘Brain or cephalic ganglion, with pharyngeal collar, pharyngeal chain, and first subventral ganglion’; and below ‘Drawn from nature by the Author’.
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817-1880) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
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