Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9904
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Earthworm
Date
1823
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 255mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 17 from the paper "On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and the earthworm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another", by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.113 (1823), pp.140-151. Figure 1 shows a belly view of the earthworm, x2 magnification. Figure 2 shows the same worm under dissection, x2 magnification. Figure 3 is the upper portion of the same, showing details of the brain and nervous system, intestine and sexual organs, x4 magnification. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer del." Royal Society stamp verso. Figures 1-2 are on the same board which has been pasted together with figure 3 on a single backing sheet.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113.
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