| RefNo | PT/73/3/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawing, 'Solvent glands [African ostrich gizzard]' by [William Clift] |
| Date | 1812 |
| Description | Plate 17 containing a line drawing of an internal view of the gizzard of the African ostrich, one-sixth scale, with a key indicating the order of associated solvent gland figures. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and a key commencing 'Solvent Glands. For Animal Food...' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1812. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 270x186mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0255 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0023 |
| URLDescription | Digital version available on The Royal Society Picture Library |
| URL | https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8589 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |