Accession No

5611

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting Volvox globator: sexual colonies, antherozoids fertilisation, by Carolina Dodel-Port, Swiss, 1875-1883

Origin

Swiss

Maker

Dodel-Port, Carolina

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1875

Latest Date

1883

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 642mm; height 884mm

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. Ferd. Cohn. del. Volvox Globator.L . J.F.SCHREIBER, ESSLINGEN.Impr.’ (across bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting Volvox globator: sexual colonies, antherozoids fertilisation. There are seven diagrams. They are all printed in colour. They are numbered from ‘Fig.1.’ to ‘Fig.7.’. They each have a scale ratio.
Inscriptions are in the top left corner and across the bottom. They are printed.
Reference numbers are in the top right and bottom right corners.
There is a stuck on label in the bottom right corner.

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