| Description | Five pencil figures showing the 'gravid uterus of pteroplataea micrura opened by a longitudinal incision in its dorsal wall', 'head and shoulders of the same foetus from the left side', 'distal moiety of a large trophonema from one of the spiracles', 'apex of the same trophonema' and a 'transverse section of a trophonema in its distal half'.
Subject: Physiology / Embryology
Prints of these figures were published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society alongside the paper 'On the uterine villiform papillæ of pteroplatœa micrura, and their relation to the embryo, being natural history notes from H. M. Indian marine survey steamer ‘Investigator,’ Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., Commanding. No. 22'. |