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    Image number: RS.8596
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    "N.S.W. Cassowary [gizzard]"

    Date
    1812
    Creator
    John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 256mm
    width (painting): 183mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 5, from the paper "A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea argala, the Casuarius emu, and the long-legged Casowary from New South Wales", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.77-81. View of the gizzard of the Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) of New South Wales, Australia. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details in ink, repeated in pencil. Inscribed "N.S.W. Cassowary 4 inches to a foot" lower right, with the plate number repeated again. Not signed, the note "del."appears lower left but is not completed. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Oceania
          > Australia
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