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Image number: RS.8678
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Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus]
Date
1819
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 268mm
width (painting): 182mm
width (painting): 182mm
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Description
Plate 18 from the paper "On the ova of the different tribes of Opossum and Ornithorhynchus", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.109 (1819), pp.234-240. Nine figures of magnified and sectioned ovaries and yolk bag of the platypus [Ornithorhynchus anatinus] at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer." Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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