Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10791

    Mouth and segments of the Earthworm

    Date
    1856
    Creator
    Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817 - 1880) , Anatomist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 228mm
    width (drawing): 353mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Anatomical studies of the exterior of Lumbricus terrestris, the common earthworm, including the anterior segments and mouth. With a dissected view of the brain and alimentary canal.

    Unpublished illustrations, (pencilled ‘Fig.1, Fig 4, Fig 5, Fig 6, Fig 7’) from the manuscript version of the paper “The nervous system of Lumbricus terrestris” by J.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.

    Descriptive inscriptions appear below each detail. Embossed upper right: ‘Bristol Board’. Not signed.

    Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke (1817-1880) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
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