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RefNoMS/223/19/1
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TitlePainting, "Coenurus Cuniculi", by George John Rose
Daten.d. [1830s?]
DescriptionA specimen of Coenurus cuniculi, presumably excised by surgery, and preserved [in spirit?] within a champagne flute. Inscribed below: "Coenurus Cuniculi (nobis). The vesicule opened and extended. This specimen exhibits the development of the young hytadids."
Extent1 item
FormatWatercolour and pencil
PhysicalDescriptionOn artist's board
Dimensions247x130mm.
AccessStatusOpen
AdminHistoryCaleb Burrell Rose (1790-1872), in whose papers this painting is preserved, wrote on the rabbit tapeworm Coenurus for the London Medical Gazette in 1833 and later corresponded on the subject with Richard Owen. The significance of his reserach was noted in the summary "Note on Coenurus". By T Spencer Cobbom, Linnean Society, 5 May 1864.
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