Freshwater hydrozoan
Date
1884
Creator
Alfred Gibbs Bourne (1859 - 1940, British) , Zoologist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 327mm
width (drawing): 205mm
width (drawing): 205mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Natural history studies of the invasive freshwater hydrozoan Craspedacusta sowerbii (here designated Linnocodium sowerbii). Specimen shown on the root filament of the aquatic plant Pontederia, and in section.
Sketch from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the occurrence of a hydroid phase of Limnocodium sowerbii, Allman and Lankester’, by Alfred Gibbs Bourne, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.9-14. This draft was intended to act as a guide to the layout and references for the finished illustration.
The accompanying text commences: ‘It is now four and a half years since the Medusae of Linnocadium were discovered by Mr Sowerby in the Victoria tank in the Gardens of the Royal Botanic Society at Regent’s Park…’.
Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895.
Sketch from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the occurrence of a hydroid phase of Limnocodium sowerbii, Allman and Lankester’, by Alfred Gibbs Bourne, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.9-14. This draft was intended to act as a guide to the layout and references for the finished illustration.
The accompanying text commences: ‘It is now four and a half years since the Medusae of Linnocadium were discovered by Mr Sowerby in the Victoria tank in the Gardens of the Royal Botanic Society at Regent’s Park…’.
Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895.
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