Rotifer
Date
1886
Creator
Charles Thomas Hudson (1828 - 1903, British) , Naturalist, Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 351mm
width (drawing): 253mm
height (card support): 412mm
width (card support): 303mm
width (drawing): 253mm
height (card support): 412mm
width (card support): 303mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Microscopic views of three different species of rotifer.
Figure 1 Megalótrocha alboflávicans Ehrenberg (here styled Megalótrocha alboflávicans)
Figure 2 Sinantherina socialis (here styled Lacinulária sociális)
Figure 3 Conochílus vólvox Ehrenberg (here styled Conochílus vólvox)
Inscribed ‘Pl VIII’ top left and on facing page ‘1. Megalótrocha alboflávicans dorsal view, 1a. side view, 1b. central view, expanded, 1c. central view, contracted. 2. Lacinulária sociális dorsal view, 2a. side view, 2b. group, 2c. male, 2d. do: exy, enlarged. 3. Conochílus vólvox side view, 3a. central view, 3b. dorsal view, 3c. obliquely central view, 3d. male, 3e. cluster, 3f. cloacal opening, 3g. antennae, 3h. eye, 3i. junction of central canal & cloacal, 3k, 3l, 3m, 3n. 3 stages if ephippial egg; male egg, 3p. ephippial (or winter) egg.’
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 Megalótrocha alboflávicans Ehrenberg (here styled Megalótrocha alboflávicans)
Figure 2 Sinantherina socialis (here styled Lacinulária sociális)
Figure 3 Conochílus vólvox Ehrenberg (here styled Conochílus vólvox)
Inscribed ‘Pl VIII’ top left and on facing page ‘1. Megalótrocha alboflávicans dorsal view, 1a. side view, 1b. central view, expanded, 1c. central view, contracted. 2. Lacinulária sociális dorsal view, 2a. side view, 2b. group, 2c. male, 2d. do: exy, enlarged. 3. Conochílus vólvox side view, 3a. central view, 3b. dorsal view, 3c. obliquely central view, 3d. male, 3e. cluster, 3f. cloacal opening, 3g. antennae, 3h. eye, 3i. junction of central canal & cloacal, 3k, 3l, 3m, 3n. 3 stages if ephippial egg; male egg, 3p. ephippial (or winter) egg.’
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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