Accession No

5021

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting glandular hairs in Humulus, by L. Kny and C. Müller, German, 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Müller, C. [artist] Laue, E. [lithographer] Parey, Paul [publisher]

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1850

Latest Date

1967

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

832mm tall; 665mm wide

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘L. Kny et C. Müller ad .nat. del.’ (bottom left)
‘E. Laue lith. Berlin.’ t(bottom right)
‘Botanische Wandtafeln
von
L. KNY.
Verlag von Paul Parey in Berlin.
S.W., 10 Hedemannstrasse.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tafel XCI.’ (top right)

Description Notes

Printed line diagrams, with yellow shading on two of the diagrams.
Twelve diagrams showing the development at a cell-level detail of an acorn-shaped growth. The catalogue for the diagrams calls this one ‘glandular hairs in Humulus’, though the mature structure doesn’t look very like a hair.
Diagrams 1-10 (bottom left, top left, then bottom right) show the organ beginning to grow above the level of the surrounding cells. 1-4, and 7-8 are side-views, 5,6,9,10 are cross-sections, showing the circular form of the structure.
11 and 12 are the main diagrams (top right and bottom left), and show the cross and longitudinal sections of the developed structure, in yellow. By 12, the thing is acorn-shaped.
Good condition.

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