Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8658
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Specimens of leeches
Date
1817
Creator
James Rawlins Johnson (British) , Physician
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height (drawing): 234mm
width (drawing): 186mm
width (drawing): 186mm
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Description
Plate 17 from the paper "Observations on the Hirudo complanata, and Hirudo stagnalis, now formed into a distinct genus under the name, Glossopora", by James Rawlins Johnson, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.339-346. Thirteen figures of Glossopora tuberculata and Glossopora punctata. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Initialled lower left "J.R.J. delt." Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked "G&A".
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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