Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12960

    Phsalia

    Date
    ca.1894
    Creator
    Henry Hallett Dale (1875 - 1968, British) , Knight Physician, Physiologist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 254mm
    width (drawing): 189mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine biological sketch of a siphonophore, probably the Portuguese man o' war, Physalia physalis, seen above and below the waterline.

    Original study within the Cambridge University student exercise book A notebook for practical zoology. Part 1 (Cambridge, Zoological Laboratory, 1892), f.21r. Drawn within the section ‘Siphonophora…Physalia with large pneumatophore and long tentacles’.

    Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875-1968) British physiologist and pharmacologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914. He served as its President from 1940-1945.
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