Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12620

    Límnias 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 three different species of rotifer.

    Figure 1 Límnias ceratophylli Schrank (here styled Límnias ceratophylli)
    Figure 2 Límnias annulata Bailey (here styled Límnias annulátus)
    Figure 3 Cephalosiphon limnias Ehrenberg (here styled Cephalosiphon límnias)

    Inscribed ‘Pl VI’ top right, ‘C.T. Hudson ad viv del.’ bottom left and on facing page ‘1. Límnias ceratophylli, central view, 1a. side view, contracted, 1b. side view, expanded, 1c. cluster, 1d. head, side view, 1e. buccal funnel, mastax sc, 1f. head & vascular system, 1g. young female. 2 Límnias annulátus central view, 2a. retracted, 2b. dorsal view, (head), 2c. head from above, 2d. head retracted. 3. Cephalosiphon límnias group, 3a. dorsal view, 3b. 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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