| RefNo | PT/74/1/5 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawings, reproductive organs of the human, sow, kangaroo, armadillo, opossum, and kangaroo rat by [Richard Owen] |
| Date | [1834] |
| Description | Plate 6, figures 1-6 showing urethro-sexual canals and other reproductive organs of the human, sow, kangaroo, armadillo, Merian opossum [Linnaeus's mouse opossum], and kangaroo rat. The figures are drawn on individual cards (figures 1-3 on one card) and mounted on a single backing sheet. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the generation of the marsupial animals, with a description of the impregnated uterus of the Kangaroo' by Richard Owen.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 January 1834. Read 24 April 1834. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Graphite on card, mounted on backing sheet |
| Dimensions | 315x228mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0019 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0155 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892); comparative anatomist and palaeontologist | 1804 - 1892 |