Nautilus specimens
Date
1834
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 195mm
width (print): 259mm
width (print): 259mm
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Description
Marine zoological studies of the Chambered nautilus Nautilus pompilius, a mollusc native to the Pacific Ocean, showing its natural colouring. Eleven figures including details, notably (figure 5) a study of the Fuzzy nautilus, Allonautilus scrobiculatus, (here styled Nautilus umbilicatus).
Plate 2 accompanying the paper ‘Anatomie des coquilles polythalames siphonees récentes pour éclaircir la structure des espéces fossils’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.3 (Paris, 1834) pp.1-27.
Inscribed above: ‘Pl. 1 et 2.’
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), French zoologist and anatomist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1832.
Plate 2 accompanying the paper ‘Anatomie des coquilles polythalames siphonees récentes pour éclaircir la structure des espéces fossils’, by H.D. De Blaineville, Novelles annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.3 (Paris, 1834) pp.1-27.
Inscribed above: ‘Pl. 1 et 2.’
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850), French zoologist and anatomist was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1832.
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