Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11930

    ‘Abyla pentagona’

    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 Bassia bassensis (here referred to as Abyla pentagona) a pelagic colony of zooids. Twelve structural figures including a main study of the whole colony (figure 1) at x3 magnification (‘ungefähr 3 mal vergrößert’) and with corresponding anatomical details (figures 2-12).

    Plate 10 from the book Die schwimmpolypen oder siphonophoren von Messina by Albert Kölliker (Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1853)

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.X’. Inscribed below: ‘E Bittinger del. Lith. Anst. v. Emil Wilhelmi in Lpzg. Ad. Sauer. Abyla pentagona.’

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