Dissection of Bithynia tentaculata
Date
1950s
Creator
Alastair Graham (1906 - 2000, British) , Zoologist
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 319mm
width (drawing): 386mm
width (drawing): 386mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Zoological study of a male specimen of the freshwater snail Bithynia tentaculata dissected to show the reproductive organs. Presented with a 1mm scale.
Figure 182B 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. Mounted on card with the ink inscription: ‘Fig.182B Bithynia. Set across page below 182A x1/3’.
Alastair Graham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
Figure 182B 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. Mounted on card with the ink inscription: ‘Fig.182B Bithynia. Set across page below 182A x1/3’.
Alastair Graham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1979.
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