Bivalve shells bored by prosobranchs
Date
1950s
Creator
Vera Fretter (1905 - 1992, British) , Zoologist
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 184mm
width (drawing): 205mm
width (drawing): 205mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological studies of shells perforated or bored by Natica or Nucella presented with a 2mm scale.
Figure 129 from the book British prosobranch molluscs: their functional anatomy and ecology by Vera Fretter and Alastair Graham (London, Ray Society, 1962).
Both Graham and Fretter contributed high-quality illustrations to British prosobranch molluscs and artist attribution can be difficult. Graham’s Royal Society Biographical Memoir states that: “Dr Fretter drew the ‘whole animals’, and Graham most of the dissections and histological preparations. She concentrated on the reproductive system, larvae and shore ecology, and he on other aspects.”
Not signed. Inscribed in ink ‘Fig.129 Nucella & Natica set across page x5/6’. With a rough preparatory sketch verso.
Alastair Graham (1906-2000) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
Figure 129 from the book British prosobranch molluscs: their functional anatomy and ecology by Vera Fretter and Alastair Graham (London, Ray Society, 1962).
Both Graham and Fretter contributed high-quality illustrations to British prosobranch molluscs and artist attribution can be difficult. Graham’s Royal Society Biographical Memoir states that: “Dr Fretter drew the ‘whole animals’, and Graham most of the dissections and histological preparations. She concentrated on the reproductive system, larvae and shore ecology, and he on other aspects.”
Not signed. Inscribed in ink ‘Fig.129 Nucella & Natica set across page x5/6’. With a rough preparatory sketch verso.
Alastair Graham (1906-2000) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
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