Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12616

    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 five different species of rotifer.

    Figure 1 Collotheca algicola (here styled Flosculária algicola)
    Figure 2 Collotheca coronetta (here styled Flosculária coronétta)
    Figure 3 Collotheca ambiqua (here styled Flosculária ambigua)
    Figure 4 diagram of a Collotheca rotifer (here styled Flosculária)
    Figure 5 Collotheca Hoodii (here styled Flosculária Hoodii)
    Figure 6 Collotheca trilobata (here styled Flosculária trilobáta)

    Inscribed ‘plate II’ top right, ‘C.T. Hudson del: ad nat:’ bottom left and on facing page ‘1. Flosculária algicola a cluster 1a. side view of head 1b. dorsal view of head. 2. Flosculária coronétta dorsal view of head. 3. Flosculária ambigua diagram. 4. Diagram of a flosculária. 5. Flosculária Hoodii side view. 5a. central view. 6. Flosculária trilobáta dorsal view. 6a. central view.'

    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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