Sea raft
Date
1883
Creator
A Meissel, Lithographer
After
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835 - 1910, Swiss-born American) , Marine biologist
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 444mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological study of the Sea raft, or By-the-wind sailor, Velella velella (here styled Velella mutica). Three figures showing the hydrozoan in profile, from above and below, at natural size.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Exploration of the surface fauna of the Gulf Stream under the auspices of the coast survey: III part 1 The porpitidae and velellidae’, by Alexander Agassiz, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v.8 no.2 (Cambridge Mass., July 1883), pp.1-16.
Inscribed below: ‘A.Ag. del. A.Meisel, lith.’
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910) Swiss-born American marine biologist and engineer.
Plate 1 accompanying the paper ‘Exploration of the surface fauna of the Gulf Stream under the auspices of the coast survey: III part 1 The porpitidae and velellidae’, by Alexander Agassiz, Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, v.8 no.2 (Cambridge Mass., July 1883), pp.1-16.
Inscribed below: ‘A.Ag. del. A.Meisel, lith.’
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910) Swiss-born American marine biologist and engineer.