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Illustrations

15 hand drawn sketches in pencil of exogastrule. Sketches are labelled in ink: 23 through 35b, and notes in ink accompany
Plate III from Edwin Grant Conklin's "The Embryology of Crepidula" in the Journal of Morphology, Vol. 13, 1897. The plate shows 12 images of various stages of Crepidula embryos with labelled cells.
13 hand drawn sketches in pencil of exogastrulae. Sketches labelled in ink: 13 through 26.
Hand drawn sketch of chick embryo (4.5 days incubation) and the development of the wing and limb buds. Also hand written notes about the stage of the embryo and the differences between it and other stages.
Hand drawn sketches of early-stage chick limb bud development along with hand written notes about the embryo.
A blackboard with a poem and a picture of a crab and other sea creatures. The poem: “There are bugs that make us happy,/There are bugs that make us sore./There are bugs that spoil our dispositions/’Til we never want to see them more./ There are bugs so very complicated/That their head from tail we cannot tell,/But the bugs that fill our hearts with sunshine/Are the ‘Big Bugs’ of M.B.L.”
Poster for the Edmund Beecher Wilson digital exhibit, housed on the MBL History Project website
Diagram of stages of cell division in animals (top row) and plants (bottom row).
Hand drawn layout of unidentified MBL building
Sketch of the Annisquam Laboratory made in 1884 by an unknown artist. Includes multiple buildings, wind tower, and stairwell onto a small doc. Windpower provided the laboratory with its water for aquaria.
Black and white illustration, also with vellum paper showing revisions, and edited captions of figure 121 (pg 191) for Huettner's "Fundamentals of Comparative Embryology of the Vertebrates", revised edition, 1949. Huettner has handwritten notes describing and revising the illustration.
Black and white illustration with handwritten notes of figure 168 (pg 263) for Huettner's "Fundamentals of Comparative Embryology of the Vertebrates", revised edition, 1949.

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