Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital.

Date:
1847-59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    444. Section of Terebratula obovata parallel with tlie surface. Fossil perforated. QThe Terebratulas are described by Dr. Caqjenter, in liis paper On the Minute Structure of the Skeletons of Mollusca, in the Annals of Natural History, for December, 1843.] 445. Section of Terebratula australis, recent. 446. Section of Terebratula (Atrypa) psittacea, recent. 447. Anomia ephippium (shreds of nacre) showing tubular channels. 448. Section of Lima scabra parallel to the surface, showing tubular structure. 449. Sections of a Patella parallel to the surface. 450. Sections of Spondylus parallel to the surface. 451. A section of Septaria gigantea parallel to the axis of the tube, showing a structm-e indistinctly cellular. 452. A section of Septaria gigantea transverse to the axis of the tube, showing the same structure cut in a different direction. 453. Sections of Ilippurite Fossil. ' The large piece is parallel, and the small one transverse to the axis of the cone. Both show a cancellated structure, with the cancelli filled up by a crystalline infiltration of carbonate of lime. 454. Exterior of a Crab shell from the under surface of the body, showing the cellular layer beneath the epidermis. 455. Exterior of a Crab shell from the upper surface, showing the coloured cellular layer filling up the spaces between the papillae of the subjacent white layer. 456. Vertical sections of the interior white layer of a Crab shell, showing a tubular structure similar to that of dentine.
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