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RefNoPT/71/6/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, 'Mammary foetus of Echidna hystrix and ornithorhynchus' by Prof [Richard] Owen
Date1865
DescriptionFigures 7-14 from plate XL and figures 3-5 from plate XLI showing several views of the feet and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix [short-beaked echidna] and the jaw, nostrils, eyes, and ears of the young of the ornithorhynchus [platypus].

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands, and mammary fœtus of the Echidna hystrix'.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 February 1865. Read 2 March 1865.
Extent1p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour and ink on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0015
RelatedRecordRR/5/165
RR/5/169
PT/71/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8083Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892)1804 - 1892
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