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RefNoPT/74/1/34
LevelItem
TitlePaintings, foetal torpedos and yolk bags by unknown artist
Date[1834]
DescriptionPlate 22, figures 1-7 showing foetal torpedos or electric rays during their development with their yolk bags. 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 'Observations on the torpedo, with an account of some additional experiments on its electricity' by John Davy.

Received by the Royal Society on 15 May 1834. Read 19 June 1834.
Extent1p
FormatPainting
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on artists' board
Dimensions279x230mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0026
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0168
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3369Davy; John (1790 - 1868); surgeon1790 - 1868
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