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    Embryo development in a hen's egg

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 254mm
    width (painting): 178mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Reproductive biology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 37 from the paper "Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.112 (1822), pp.339-356. Nine figures showing development within an egg from eight days after incubation commences to ten days' incubation. With publication and plate details inscribed. Signed lower left "Franz Bauer del". Royal Society stamp verso.
    Object history
    An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > United Kingdom
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.8747
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