| RefNo | PT/73/15/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, abdominal integument and mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix by [Richard Owen] |
| Date | [1832] |
| Description | Plate 17, figures 2-3 (labelled here as figures 1-2) showing part of the abdominal integument and the mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix [Tachyglossus aculeatus; short-beaked echidna]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Below is a key to the letters labelling parts of the anatomy represented in the figures. A faint pencil outline of figure 1 is visible below the figures, to appear underneath figures 2 and 3 in the published plate. Not signed.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen.
Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Graphite on paper |
| Dimensions | 340x236mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1832.0023 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0076 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/20/8i |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892); comparative anatomist and palaeontologist | 1804 - 1892 |