Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11925

    ‘Physophora Philippii’

    Date
    1853
    Creator
    Adolf Sauer (German) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN47172
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 377mm
    width (print): 272mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Anatomical studies of the marine siphonophore Physophora hydrostatica (here described as Physophora philippii) a pelagic colony of zooids. Five structural figures, including a main study of the whole colony at natural size (figure 1) and anatomical details (figures 2-5).

    Plate 5 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.V’. Inscribed below: ‘Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. A. Sauer sc. Physophora Philippii.’

    Albert von Kölliker (1817-1905) Swiss anatomist and physiologist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1860.
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