Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9906
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Earthworm eggs and their development
Date
1823
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 253mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
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Description
Plate 19 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. Details of the sexual organs, eggs and embryos of the earthworm. Figures 1-4 show the testicle, ovaries and egg sacks containing eggs and embyros at different stages. Figures 5-9 show immature worms with a dissected view of the tail portion of an adult worm. Various magnifications. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink 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, volume 113.
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