Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11623

    Structure of the Horseshoe worm

    Date
    1882
    Creator
    William Hay Caldwell (1859 - 1941, British) , Zoologist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 110mm
    width (drawing): 150mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Two diagrams of the general anatomical structure of Phoronis, the Horseshoe worm and other marine invertebrates. Figure A is a vertical section through the animal. Figure B shows a horizontal section. Based upon the author’s observations at the Naples Zoological Station in Italy.

    Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘Preliminary note on the structure, development, and affinities of Phoronis’, by W. H. Caldwell, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.34 (1882), pp.371-383. The published paper reproduced the figures on p.383 with the title: ‘Two diagrams to illustrate the body plan of Phoronis, Brachiopoda and Polyzoa’.

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    William Hay Caldwell (1859-1941) was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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