Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8751
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    Dissected chick

    Date
    1822
    Creator
    Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 255mm
    width (painting): 180mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Anatomy
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ornithology
    Biology
       > Reproductive biology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > bird
    Description
    Plate 41 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. Four figures showing the fully developed chick one day after hatching and dissected to show the development of the major organs. 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
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