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RefNoPT/73/15/24
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, abdominal integument and mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix by [Richard Owen]
Date[1832]
DescriptionPlate 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.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite 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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