Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12615

    Collotheca rotifers

    Date
    1886
    Creator
    Charles Thomas Hudson (1828 - 1903, British) , Naturalist, Naturalist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 354mm
    width (drawing): 252mm
    height (card support): 412mm
    width (card support): 303mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Microscopic views of nine different species of rotifer.

    Figure 1 Collotheca campanulata (here styled Flosculária campanuláta)
    Figure 2 Collotheca ambiqua (here styled Flosculária ambigua)
    Figure 3 Collotheca algicola (here styled Flosculária algicola)
    Figure 4 Collotheca campanulata var. longicaudata (here styled Flosculária longicaudáta)
    Figure 5 Collotheca coronetta (here styled Flosculária coronétta)
    Figure 6 Collotheca ornate var. cyclops (here styled Flosculária cyclops)
    Figure 7 Collotheca ornate var. cornuta (here styled Floscularia cornúta)
    Figure 8 Floscularia regalis Hudson (here styled Flosculária regális)
    Figure 9 Collotheca ornate (here styled Flosculária ornáta)

    Inscribed ‘plate I’ top right, ‘C.T. Hudson del: ad nat:’ bottom left and on facing page ‘1. Flosculária campanuláta, side view, 1a. obliquely central, 1b. male, same scale as fig.1, 1c. male, magnified, 1d. female; trochal disc from above. 2. Flosculária ambigua side view, 2a obliquely central. 3. Flosculária algicola side view. 4. Flosculária longicaudáta dorsal view. 5. Flosculária coronétta side view, 5a. trochal disc from above. 6. Flosculária cyclops side view. 7. Flosculária cornúta side view. 8. Flosculária regális side view, 8a. dorsal view. 9. Flosculária ornáta obliquely dorsal, 9a trophi, side view, 9b. trophi, obliquely from above, 9c. young female first hatched, 9d. the same a little older. **All the unsigned drawings are by D Hudson, & taken from the life. * Those signed P.H.G (or otherwise) are copies by Dr. H from original drawings of Mr P.H. Gosse.’

    Illustration from The original drawings of the Rotifer by Charles Thomas Hudson, 1886. A collaborative work with Philip Henry Gosse which was published in two volumes The Rotifera or Wheel-Animalcules (London 1886).

    Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a British naturalist he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.

    Charles Thomas Hudson (1828-1903) was a British naturalist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1889.
    Object history
    Presented by Miss Florence Hudson, 1921.

    The donation is recorded in the Royal Society’s Council Minutes: ‘The Secretaries reported the receipt of a bound volume of original drawings of the Rotifera, by C.T. Hudson, F.R.S., bequeathed to the Society by the late Miss Florence Hudson.’ Royal Society Minutes of Council, Printed, v.12 1920-1926, minute 17, meeting 28 April 1921, p.43.
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