Accession No

4946

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing leaf ontogeny in tobacco, a continuation of chart 4947, tentatively attributed to Avery, English, c. 1930-1967

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Avery [tentative attribution]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1930

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 1740mm; height 1208mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘leaf ontogeny in tobacco - avery’ (top)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart showing leaf ontogeny in tobacco, a continuation of chart 4947, tentatively attributed to Avery, English, c. 1930-1967.
Black ink line drawings of longitudinal sections of growing leaves, with small cross-sections drawn alongside their point of section (three or four per longitudinal section).
There are four longitudinal sections, numbered 7-10, and increasing in size.
7 and 8 are on the left, 9 in the middle, and 10 on the right.
A scale bar is marked bottom centre: 130mm = 1mm.
Numbers 1-6 of the sequence are on chart 4947, at a larger scale.

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