| RefNo | PT/74/1/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, nervous system of Papilio urticae and Sphinx ligustri by G [George] Newport |
| Date | 1832 |
| Description | Plate 15, figures 20-27 and 34 and plate 16, figure 36 showing parts of the nervous system of the Papilio urticae [small tortoiseshell] during development and the larva of the Sphinx ligustri. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and captions that correspond to the published plate. Signed in graphite bottom left 'G Newport del 1832'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Entomology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the nervous system of the Sphinx ligustri, Linn., (Part II.) during the latter stages of its pupa and its Imago state; and on the means by which its development is effected' by George Newport.
Received by the Royal Society on 6 March 1834. Read 19 June 1834. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Graphite on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 201x159mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0021 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0167 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5371 | Newport; George (1803 - 1854) | 1803 - 1854 |