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Description: | Barbados One of three known specimens from mid 18th century, acquired by William Hunter from John Fothergill. An original label by Capt Laskey is on file and gives some of the details on this specimen published in his 1813 account of the Hunterian Museum thus : 'A curious specimen of Encrinus with feathered tentacula and a long angulated stem, beset with many claspers, fished up off the island of Barbadoes,. of this extremely rare animal only three specimens are known; an account with a figure of this specimen is given by Mr Ellis in the Philosophical Trans. Vol 53 for the year 1761, and calls it Encrinus capite stellata ramoso-dichotomo stipite pentageno equisetiforme, the second is described in the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences at Paris published in 1761 for the year 1755. The third was in the collection of the late Duchess Dowager of Portland and is now in the cabinet of the late Jno Hunter Esq. Laskey Capt. 21st Militia.' | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ECHMCRINZCRIND : CRINDMISC : Encrinus capite stellata etc : EH_HUNTER THE COLLECTOR : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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