| Description | Plate 16, figure 5 showing a plexus of blood vessels located between the surface of the cornea and the conjunctiva. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 18' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes. Dec. 5. 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. |