Accession No

5610

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting Volvox aureus (=V. minor); antherozoids fertilisation, germination of oospore, by Carolina Dodel-Port, Swiss, 1875-1883

Origin

Switzerland

Maker

Dodel-Port, Carolina

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1883

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 613mm; height 828mm

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

‘Dodel-Port.Atlas.’ (top left)
‘Carolina Dodel-Port sec. O. Kirchner del. Volvox minor,Stein. J.F.SCHREIBER, ESSLINGEN.Impr.’ (across bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Volvox aureus (=V. minor); antherozoids fertilisation, germination of oospore. Seven diagrams, all printed and in colour. They are numbered from ‘Fig. 1.’ to ‘Fig 7.’. Three are also labelled with letters, although there is no key. There is a ratio in the centre of the chart. The inscriptions are printed in the top left corner and across the bottom of the chart.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left and top left corners of the chart.

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