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            Cerebellum of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark]
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                                1813
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                John Howship (1781 - 1841, British) , Surgeon
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (painting): 262mm
width (painting): 220mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 220mm
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                                Description
                            
                            
                                Plate 20 from the paper "Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus, contained in a former paper; with observations on the structure of the branchial artery", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.103 (1813), pp.227-241. From an  original specimen caught at Brighton and brought to  London for dissection in December 1812. View of the upper surface of the cerebellum and nerves. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed "J. Howship. delt." Royal Society stamp verso.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
                                Object history
                            
                            
                                An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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