Pouch of the Short beaked echidna
Date
1884
Creator
C Eggert (Australian) , Illustrator
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 317mm
width (drawing): 209mm
width (drawing): 209mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Anatomical study of the egg-laying pouch of the short beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus (here referred to as Echidna hystrix). Pinned preparation from the dissected female specimen captured on Kangaroo Island and transported to Adelaide, Australia and studied after egg-laying.
Plate 2 from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the Marsupial Ovum, the Mammary Pouch, and the Male Milk Glands of Echidna hystrix’, by Wilhelm Haacke, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.72-74. The illustration was not printed in the published account.
The accompanying text states that: ‘Pl II shows the reverse of the pouch, somewhat shrunk by the action of alcohol, and surrounded by subcutaneous muscles [?], further, the mammary glands, and a section of the cloaca. Natural size’. Inscribed above ‘II’ and below ‘C.Eggert del., Haacke direxit’
Johann Wilhelm Haacke (1855-1912) German zoologist was Director of the Natural History Museum in Adelaide, 1882-1884.
Plate 2 from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the Marsupial Ovum, the Mammary Pouch, and the Male Milk Glands of Echidna hystrix’, by Wilhelm Haacke, Proceedings of the Royal Society, v.38 (1884), pp.72-74. The illustration was not printed in the published account.
The accompanying text states that: ‘Pl II shows the reverse of the pouch, somewhat shrunk by the action of alcohol, and surrounded by subcutaneous muscles [?], further, the mammary glands, and a section of the cloaca. Natural size’. Inscribed above ‘II’ and below ‘C.Eggert del., Haacke direxit’
Johann Wilhelm Haacke (1855-1912) German zoologist was Director of the Natural History Museum in Adelaide, 1882-1884.
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