Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11928

    ‘Vogtia pentacantha’

    Date
    1853
    Creator
    Adolf Sauer (German) , Lithographer
    After
    E Bittinger (German) , Illustrator
    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 Vogtia pentacantha, a pelagic colony of zooids. Eight structural figures, including a main study of the whole colony at natural size (figure 1) and with corresponding anatomical details (figures 2-8).

    Plate 8 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.VIII’. Inscribed below: ‘E Bittinger del. Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. A. Sauer. Vogtia pentacantha Köll.’

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