Long-spine slate pen sea urchin
Date
1872
Creator - Organisation
After
Antoine Sonrel (Swiss-born American) , Illustrator
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Dimensions
height (mount): 284mm
width (mount): 210mm
width (mount): 210mm
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Description
Marine zoological studies of the Long-spine slate pen sea urchin Cidaris cidaris (here styled Dorocidaris papillata). Five figures showing views of specimens of the echinoid, native to the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Illustrated catalogue…Revision of the echini’, by Alexander Agassiz, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v.3 (Cambridge Mass., 1872-1873), plates.
Inscribed above: ‘A. Aggassiz, Revision of the Echini. PL.I’. Inscribed below: A.Sonrel photo. American photo-Relief Co., Printers, Phila.’
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910) Swiss-born American marine biologist and engineer.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Illustrated catalogue…Revision of the echini’, by Alexander Agassiz, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v.3 (Cambridge Mass., 1872-1873), plates.
Inscribed above: ‘A. Aggassiz, Revision of the Echini. PL.I’. Inscribed below: A.Sonrel photo. American photo-Relief Co., Printers, Phila.’
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910) Swiss-born American marine biologist and engineer.
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