Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15025

    Pancreas of a salmon

    Date
    21 April 1673
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol6 p104
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 301mm
    width (page): 177mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Jan Swammerdam's drawing of pancreas of salmon in his letter dated 21 April 1673 [N.S.], and read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 16 April 1673.

    This is copied from LBO/6/092a.
    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
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Netherlands
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