Pancreas of a salmon
Date
21 April 1673
Creator
Jan Swammerdam (1637 - 1680, Dutch) , Biologist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p92a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 118mm
width (page): 156mm
width (page): 156mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Jan Swammerdam's drawing of the pancreas of salmon in his letter dated 21 April 1673 [N.S.]. The letter was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 April 1673.
There is a copy at LBC/6/104.
There is a copy at LBC/6/104.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 April, 1673, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a letter written to him by Dr. Swammerdam, dated April 21, 1673, from Amsterdam, accompanied with some anatomical observations of his about the pancreas and pancreatic juice of several fishes; as also of an human foetus lately found at Rome between the ovarium and the tuba, contained with its usual integuments; the description and delineation whereof, he intimated, were then preparing at Rome’ (Birch 3:84).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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