Venus slipper
Date
1885
Creator
John Denis Macdonald (1826 - 1908) , Naval medical officer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 179mm
width (drawing): 113mm
width (drawing): 113mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological study of Cymbulia peronii, the gastropod known as the Venus slipper. The author stated within the accompanying text that his specimens were brought from the Indian Ocean.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the general characters of the Genus Cymbulia’, by John D. Macdonald, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.251-253. Printed on p.252 of the published paper.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Figure of Cymbulia Peroni? (Indian Ocean). Drawn from nature x3’. Initialled lower left ‘JDM’ and with a note ‘The lines are too heavily drawn, with common ink but can be more delicately given in an engraving’. Lower right: ‘Macdonald 1885’.
Sir John Denis MacDonald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.
Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the general characters of the Genus Cymbulia’, by John D. Macdonald, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.251-253. Printed on p.252 of the published paper.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Figure of Cymbulia Peroni? (Indian Ocean). Drawn from nature x3’. Initialled lower left ‘JDM’ and with a note ‘The lines are too heavily drawn, with common ink but can be more delicately given in an engraving’. Lower right: ‘Macdonald 1885’.
Sir John Denis MacDonald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1859.
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