Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13007

    Sea urchins

    Date
    1872
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Antoine Sonrel (Swiss-born American) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 194mm
    width (print): 146mm
    height (mount): 284mm
    width (mount): 210mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of four specimens of echinoids.

    Figures 1-2. Parasalenia gratiosa
    Figure 3. Helmet urchin Colobocentrotus (Podophora) atratus (here styled Colobocentrotus atratus)
    Figures 4-5. Colobocentrotus (Colobocentrotus) mertensii (here styled Colobocentrotus mertensii)
    Figure 6. Heterocentrotus trigonarius

    Plate 3d 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.IIId’. 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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