Accession No

4947

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing leaf ontogeny in tobacco (sequence is continued in chart 4946), 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 1498mm; height 1042mm

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

Black ink line drawings of longitudinal sections of growing leaves, with small cross-sections drawn alongside their point of section (between two and four per longitudinal section).
There are six longitudinal sections, numbered 1-6, and increasing in size from a small bump, to a tall almost-leaf shape.
1-3 run down the left side, 4 and 5 are in the middle, and 6 is on the right.
A scale bar is marked top right: 320mm = 1mm.
Numbers 7-10 of the sequence are on chart 4946, at a smaller scale.

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