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
width (drawing): 252mm
height (card support): 412mm
width (card support): 303mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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.
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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