Accession No

4717

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing anatomy of Fucus (a seaweed), by G. B. 'Herbert' Newham, English, 20th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Newham, G. B. 'Herbert'

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1919

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 917mm; height 1224mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘ANATOMY of FUCUS’ (top)

Description Notes

Six black ink line drawings, with some shading, of the seaweed Fucus.
Top right ‘L.S. of young stipe showing fibres’ (at cell level)
Across centre ‘T.S. of frond’ (whole frond, with location of ‘c’ marked)
Top centre, marked ‘c’ ‘(high power) T.S. of frond.’ (cell detail)
Bottom left, ‘T.S. old stipe’ (tissue level, with location of ‘e’ and ‘d’ marked)
Bottom right, marked ‘d’, cell level detail of centre of old stipe.
Top left, marked ‘e’ ‘secondary parenchyma in T.S. of stipe.’ (rough cell detail)
Labels in an italic hand.

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