‘Forskalia Edwardsii’
Date
1853
Creator
Adolf Sauer (German) , Lithographer
After
C H Kahlbaum (German) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
RCN47172
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 272mm
width (print): 272mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological study of the siphonophore Forskalia edwardsii a pelagic colony of zooids. The illustration has a structural key to details a-I and is described as ‘etwas vergrößert’ (slightly enlarged).
Plate 1 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)
Inscribed above: ‘Tab.I’. Inscribed below: ‘C.Kahlbaum del. Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. Ad. Sauer. Forskalia Edwardsii.’
Albert von Kölliker (1817-1905) Swiss anatomist and physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1860.
Plate 1 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)
Inscribed above: ‘Tab.I’. Inscribed below: ‘C.Kahlbaum del. Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. Ad. Sauer. Forskalia Edwardsii.’
Albert von Kölliker (1817-1905) Swiss anatomist and physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1860.
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