| RefNo | PT/75/1/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, conjunctival vessels on cornea by H Holmes |
| Date | August 1840 |
| Description | Plate 16, figure 1 showing conjuctival vessels on the margins of the cornea, magnified 30x. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 14' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Aug. 1840.'
Subject: Physiology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages' by Joseph Toynbee.
Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' paper |
| Dimensions | 226x186mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0015 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0167 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/25/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7525 | Toynbee; Joseph (1815 - 1866) | 1815 - 1866 |