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RefNoPT/73/6/20
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, specimens of leeches by JRJ [James Rawlins Johnson]
Date[1817]
DescriptionPlate 17 showing thirteen figures of Glossopora tuberculata and Glossopora punctata. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Initialled lower left 'J.R.J. delt'. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'G&A'.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the Hirudo complanata, and Hirudo Stagnalis, now formed into a distinct genus under the name, Glossopora' by James Rawlins Johnson.

Read to the Royal Society on 26 June 1817.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper
Dimensions234x186mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0070
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0027
RelatedRecordPT/11/26
URLDescriptionDigital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library
URLhttps://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8658
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3445Johnson; James Rawlins (- 1840); physician - 1840
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