| Reference number | PT/73/16/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawing, lamina of cod eye by R K [Robert Kaye] Greville |
| Date | [1833] |
| Description | Plate 8, figure 1 showing the lamina [nerve fibres] on the lens of a cod eye, with the fibres traced to two poles. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Faint [erased?] pencil inscription reads 'This part will require disinct improving'. Signed in ink bottom left, 'R. K. Greville delt.'
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the anatomical and optical structure of the crystalline lenses of animals, particularly that of the cod' by David Brewster.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 March 1833. Read 9 May 1833. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Physical description | Ink and ink wash on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 195x128mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0110 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1833.0018 |
| Related records in the catalogue | PT/21/7 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7450 | Brewster; Sir; David (1781 - 1868); natural philosopher | 1781 - 1868 |