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Wheat infected with Vibrio tritici

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Date

1822

Artist

Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Plate 1 from the Croonian Lecture paper "Microscopical observations on the suspension of the muscular motions of the Vibrio Tritici", by Franz Andreas (Francis) Bauer, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.1-16. 23 figures showing the stages of infestation in ears of wheat caused by the wheat gall nemotode (Anguina tritici) under x5 and x10 magnifications. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer del." and in pencil lower right "Js Basire sc." Royal Society stamp verso.