Pancreas of a salmon
Date
21 April 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol6 p104
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 301mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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