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    Image number: RS.8657
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    Gullets of the Java swallow, Common swallow and Blackbird

    Date
    1817
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 266mm
    width (drawing): 211mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 16 from the paper "Some acount of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.332-338. Home's paper relays observations by Sir Stamford Raffles on the Edible-nest switlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus). Bauer's nine figures are gullet details of these and other birds under magnification. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del." and lower right "Is. Basire sc.". Magnifications are given in pencil around the edge of the plate. Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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