Stinging structures of sea-anemones
Date
1857
Creator
Philip Henry Gosse (1810 - 1888, British) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (painting): 246mm
width (painting): 197mm
width (painting): 197mm
Subject
Description
Microscope studies of the stinging structures or cnidocytes found in sea-anemones.
Plate 2 figures 11-18, including details from specimens identified by the author as Bunoides crassicornis, Sagartia Parasitica, Corynactis viridis and Cyathina smithii.
Unpublished illustrations from the manuscript version of the paper “Researches on the poison apparatus of the Actiniadae” by Philip Henry Gosse, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.125-128.
Signed lower left: ‘P.H.Gosse ad nat. del.’.
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
Plate 2 figures 11-18, including details from specimens identified by the author as Bunoides crassicornis, Sagartia Parasitica, Corynactis viridis and Cyathina smithii.
Unpublished illustrations from the manuscript version of the paper “Researches on the poison apparatus of the Actiniadae” by Philip Henry Gosse, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.9 (1857-1859), pp.125-128.
Signed lower left: ‘P.H.Gosse ad nat. del.’.
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
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