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RefNoPT/73/10/1
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, wheat infected with Vibrio tritici by Franz [Andreas] Bauer
Date[1822]
DescriptionPlate 1 containing 23 figures showing the stages of infestation in ears of wheat caused by the wheat gall nemotode [Anguina tritici] under x5 and x10 magnifications. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' and in pencil lower right 'Js [James] Basire sc.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. Microscopical observations on the suspension of the muscular motions of the vibrio tritici' by Franz Bauer.

Read to the Royal Society on 5 December 1822.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on artists' board
Dimensions255x178mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0196
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0001
RelatedRecordPT/16/1
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-9885
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7476Bauer; Franz Andreas (1758 - 1840)1758 - 1840
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