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RefNoPT/73/15/22
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, sexual organs of the female Ornithorhynchus [platypus] by Richd [Richard] Owen
Date[1832]
DescriptionPlate 15, figures 1-2 showing the sexual organs of the Ornithorhynchus [platypus], as well as the bladder, rectum, and mammary glands. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil bottom left 'Richd Owen del'. A pencil inscription bottom right reads 'Jas [James] Basire sc.' A faint pencil inscription verso reads 'Owen'.

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.
Extent2p
FormatPainting
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on paper
Dimensions340x236mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1832.0023
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0076
RelatedRecordPT/20/8i
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8083Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892)1804 - 1892
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