Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12971

    Asterias

    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
    Anatomical sketches and details of an unidentified starfish Asterias under dissection.

    Original study within the Cambridge University student exercise book A notebook for practical zoology. Part 1 (Cambridge, Zoological Laboratory, 1892), f.94r. Drawn within the section ‘Asterias. 3. Dissection from dorsal surface…4. View of the organs exposed after removal of the alimentary canal…5. Sketch of a pedicellaria, drawn with a low power.’

    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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