"The phylum Mollusca contains some of the most familiar invertebrates, including snails, slugs, clams, mussels, and octopuses."^
The images below have been cropped back to the copper-plate engraving margins and the backgrounds have been extensively cleaned of spots and stains. A few images have been colour boosted. The sampling below constitutes maybe one fifth of the total number of illustrated atlas plates.
- S�che vermicul�e*
- S�che mamelonne�*
- *Cap de bonne-esp�rance
- S�pioteuthe austral
- S�pioteuthe de maurice
- Sepioteuthe de dorei
- Sepioteuthe lunul�
- S�che deux lignes
- S�che � longs bras
- Calmar de Vanikoro
- S�che australe (Banc des Anguilles)
- S�piole lin�ol�e (Nouv-Hollande)
- Onychoteuthe arm� (C�l�bes)
- Poulpe lunul�
- Poulpe cordiforme
- Poulpe de Western
- Poulpe membraneux
- H�lice alfour
- H�lice mammillaire
- H�lice granul�e
- H�lice papoua
- Doris Tuberculeuse
- Doris Tachet�e. Cuv.
- Doris � bords noirs. Cuv.
- Doris Limacine
- Doris Car�n�e
- Aplysie de Hasselt, Vari�t�. (Ile de France)
- Aplysie de rumph, vari�te. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Aplysie de Tonga. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Buccin, Lime
- Buccin, Raifort
- Struthiolaire, Cr�nul�e
- �burne, canalicul�e
- Buccin, Lisse
- Buccin, Agathe
- Tonne perdrix
- Son anatomie
- Tonne pelure d'oigno
- Tonne cassidiforme
- Son anatomie
- Porcelaine tigre. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Porcelaine anguleuse. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Porcelaine oviforme. (Nouv-Guin�e)
- Porcelaine � verrues. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Porcelaine arlequine. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Porcelaine rong�e. (Tonga-Tabou)
- Porcelaine t�te-de-serpent. (Ile-de-France)
- Animal de porcelaine tigre (femelle)
- Anatomie de la m�me (m�le)
- Aneillaire � sillons blancee (femelle)
- Aneillaire australe (m�le)
- Strombe lambis (femelle)
- Agathine mauritienne
- Strombe aile-deopapillion, femelle
- Strombe grenouille, m�le
- Strombe lambis, m�le
- Vari�t� Strombe lambis
- Strombe bossu
- Phasianelle, Bulimo�de
- Phasianelle, Ventrue
- Turbo Marbr�
- Oscabrion de Maurice
- Oscabrion � c�tes �troites
- Oscabrion Z�landais
- Oscabrion de Garnot. (Brainu)
- Oscabrion violet
- Oscabrion violet. vari�t�
- Oscabrion fasci�
- Oscabrion montieculaire
- le m�me vari�t�
- Oscabrion ocul�
- Oscabrion aiguillonne
- Oscabrion vari�t�
- Oscabrion glauque
- Oscabrion birameux
- Oscabrion peau de serpent
- Oscabrion vert
- Oscabrion lamelleux
- Oscabrion marron
- Oscabrion tulipe
- Tridacne faiti�re
- Tridacne safran�e
- La m�me vue par dessous
- Tridacne gigant�sque
- Ascidie marron d'inde
- Ascidie australe
- son anatomie
- Ascidie �pineuse
- Polycline cylindrique
- Botrylle en grappe
- Distome violet
- Distome �l�gant
- Euc�le rose
- Aplide c�r�briforme
- Aplide p�doncul�
- [Zoophytes]
- Holothurie ananas
- D�tails anatomiques
- Son poisson parasite. (du genre Fierasfer.)
- Holothurie flamm�e
- [Zoophytes]
- Holothurie �pineuse N. avec son anatomie
- Holothurie orang�e
- Fistulaire piquet�e
- Fistulaire de Dorey
- [Zoophytes]
- Actinie, Magnifique
- Actinie, Azur
- Actinie. Verd�tre
- Actinie � Globules
- [Zoophytes]
- Actinie, Alcyono�de
- Actinie, Arborescente
- Actinie, Rouge et blanche
- Actinie, Clou
- [Zoophytes]
- Fongie Actinie. (Nouvelle-Irlande)
- Fongie � gros tubrcules. (Vanikoro)
- Tubinolie rouge. (Nouv-Z�lande)
- [Zoophytes]
- Lobophyllie anguleuse var. (N.-Irlande)
- Caryophyllie fascicul�e. (Vanikoro)
- Lobophyllie orang�e. (Nouv.-Hollande)
- Dendrophyllie rouge�tre. (Nouv.-Z�lande)
- [Zoophytes]
- Alcyon fl�xible
- Alcyon tuberculeux
- Alcyon jaune
- Alcyon rameux
- [Vers apodes -- ? = legless]
- Borlasie � cinq lignes
- Borlasie stri�e
- Borlasie � bandelette | sa vari�t�
- Borlasie verte
- Borlasie tricuspide
- Borlasie de la Nouv.-Z�lande
- Borlasie � quatre points
Firstly, to quote myself:
"Jules S�bastien C�sar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) had already established a name for himself when, as part of a French naval expedition to Greece in 1820, he recognized the true value of a recently unearthed statue. His advocacy resulted in the Louvre purchasing the Venus de Milo.
As a lieutenant aboard the Coquille under Louis Duperrey, d'Urville first sailed around the world in 1822 and he surveyed the Falklands, Tahiti, New Zealand, New Holland and other Pacific islands. After a promotion he commanded L'Astrolabe when it sailed in 1826 on a 3 year voyage whose original mission was to investigate the fate of the La P�rouse expedition (the original Astrolabe was among the lost ships).
[Wiki]: "The new Astrolabe skirted the coast of southern Australia, carried out new relief maps of the South Island of New Zealand, reached the archipelagos of Tonga and Fiji, executed the first relief maps of the Loyalty Islands (part of French New Caledonia) and explored the coasts of New Guinea. [d'Urville] identified the site of La P�rouse�s shipwreck in Vanikoro (one of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the archipelago of the Solomon Islands) and collected numerous remains of his boats. The voyage continued with the mapping of part of the Caroline Islands and the Moluccas. The Astrolabe returned to Marseille on 25 March, 1829, with an impressive load of hydrographical papers and collections of zoological, botanical and mineralogical reports, which were destined to strongly influence the scientific analysis of those regions. Following this expedition, he invented the terms Malaisia, Micronesia and Melanesia, distinguishing these Pacific cultures and island groups from Polynesia."
Te Ara: "On the completion of this voyage Dumont d'Urville expressed some regret that the efforts of his officers and men were not sufficiently recognised. However, on 8 August 1829 Charles X signed an act promoting Dumont d'Urville to the rank of post captain and on 17 August l'Acad�mie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut received with warm approval his official report of the expedition. Dumont d'Urville was commanded by the King to publish an account of the voyage of the Astrolabe; comprising twelve volumes and five albums, it was completed by May 1835."
- One of the atlases from: 'Voyage de D�couvertes de l'Astrolab Ex�cut� par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Ann�es 1826-1827-1828-1829, Sous le Commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville, Capitaine de Vaisseau' {1833} by MJD d'Urville & Achille Richard was uploaded by the Botanicus Digital Library in 2012. (I don't usually revisit works I've posted about previously, but my original post on L'Astrolabe is 7 years old and this atlas upload is a singularly beautiful copy, available in a variety of formats in high resolution, and beyond anything else I've seen online from the d'Urville series in terms of quality.)
- Jules S�bastien C�sar Dumont d'Urville biographies: Dictionary of NZ Biography (via Te Ara) by Margaret JA Simpson AND 1966 bio from NZ Encyclopedia (via Te Ara) � The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. [Te Ara homepage]
- Biography from South-Pole.
- Museum of Western Australia exhibition site: Journeys of Enlightenment.
- Legacy site (incl. background and plates) from the Marine Biological Laboratory (Massachusetts).
- All (or nearly all?) of the plates from the Voyage of L'Astrolabe series (and most likely other books by/on d'Urville) can be seen via NYPL - I copied all the image captions above from here.
- Other plates : Linda Hall Library | U Edinburgh.
- The Wikipedia article on Mollusca is a pretty good introduction and jump off point.
- Just by the by, I'm reminded that there aren't a lot of easily findable historical voyage maps (of reasonable quality) on the internet as far as I'm aware. Pity, that.
- Previously: The Voyage of La Perouse.
- Elsewhere: Twitter | Delicious | Pinboard.
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