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Image number: RS.9886
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Vibrio tritici nemotode worms
Date
1822
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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height (painting): 255mm
width (painting): 181mm
width (painting): 181mm
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Description
Plate 2 from the Croonian Lecture paper "Microscopical observations on the suspension of the muscular motions of the Vibria Tritici", by Francis Bauer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.1-16. Figure 1 shows a group of worms of the wheat gall nemotode (Anguina tritici) in water and seen in the microscope field at x100 magnification. Figure 2 shows living and decaying worms in water at x200 magnification. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer del." and in pencil lower right "Js Basire sc." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
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