Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9907
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Barnacles
Date
1823
Creator
Franz Andreas Bauer (1758 - 1840, Austrian) , Microscopist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 242mm
width (painting): 178mm
width (painting): 178mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 20 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. Fourteen figures showing details of the head, jaws, pedicle, penis, eggs and other internal structures of the barnacle. Various magnifications. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left "Franz Bauer" 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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