Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11585

    ‘Disease spots’

    Date
    1890
    Creator
    Harry Marshall Ward (1854 - 1906, British) , Biologist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 278mm
    width (painting): 214mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Description
    Botanical study of coffee leaf disease Hemileia vastatrix, showing a potted plant exhibiting fungal rust on the underside of the leaves and disease spots, with one leaf detail.

    Plate from the manuscript version of the paper ‘The relations between host and parasite in certain epidemic diseases of plants’, by H. Marshall Ward, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.47 (1890), pp.322-325. The illustration did not appear in the published paper.

    The figure is held in a cover sheet, with the title: The “Disease Spots”. Instructions to the printer appear on the back sheet, in ink: ‘Directions to the engraver – omit the loose leaf to left below - & shade the flower-pot & soil. Reduce to half-size’. Not signed.

    Harry Marshall Ward was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
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