The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang ... during the years 1843-1846. Vol. 2

Creator

Date

1848

Identifier

Expedition Reports Q115 S238 1843

Type

Publisher

London: Reeve and Benham

Abstract

Although there are only two volumes of reports in the collection from the voyage of the HMS Samarang (1843-1846), they contain a plethora of amazing coloured plates. These molluscs are from the same species, Argonauta hians (syn. Argonauta gondola), and were gathered in the ‘Eastern Seas’. This plate was drawn by illustrator, naturalist, and conchologist, George Brettingham Sowerby II (d. 1884). The Sowerbys were an English family of naturalists and illustrators prominent in the late 1700s to the 1950s.

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___, “The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang ... during the years 1843-1846. Vol. 2,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/9657.