Accession No

4674

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting stigma and pollen-tubes in Lilium Martagon L, by J. F. Schreiber, Arnold Dodel-Port, and I. Conrad, German, 1878

Origin

Germany; Esslingen

Maker

Schreiber, J. F. [printer] Dodel-Port, Arnold [artist] Conrad, I. [lithographer]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1878

Latest Date

1878

Inscription Date

1878

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 640mm; height 875mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘Arnold Dodel-Port ad nat. del. (Juli-August 1878)’ (bottom left)
‘Lilium Martagon, fol:B.’ (bottom centre)
‘J.F. Schreiber. esslingen. Impr.’ (bottom right)
‘I. Conrad lith.’ (bottom right, handwriting, with ‘I’ superimposed on ‘C’)

Description Notes

Five diagrams of different parts of Lilium Martagon L. in five colours.
Diagrams are numbered, have lettered labels, and have their scales marked.
Fig. 1 takes up most of the chart, top and centre. It is a cross-section through anthers and the surrounding tissues, with cells marked (bright pink and green).
Fig 2. is middle left, part A is an external view of the stigma, parts B-D are cross-sections through the stigma at different points.
Fig. 3. is bottom left, and has a transverse- and a cross-section through the ovary.
Fig. 4. is middle right and shows two pollen grains starting to grow pollen tubes.
Fig. 5. is bottom centre, and shows a close-up of a growing pollen grain as the two nuclei prepare to enter the tube.
Fig. 6. is bottom right, is detailed cell structure of something much bigger than a pollen grain.
Notation in top left ‘Dodel-Port Atlas’.
Inscription runs across the bottom.
Ref number in bottom right.
Folio A for this set is accession number 4675.
Fragile.

References

Events