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RefNoPT/75/1/12
LevelItem
TitlePainting, distribution of blood vessels in epiphysal canal by H Holmes
Date9 December 1840
DescriptionPlate 13, figure 4 showing the distribution of blood vessels in a canal of epiphysal cartilage. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 2' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Dec. 9. 1840.'

Subject: Physiology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages' by Joseph Toynbee.

Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841.
Extent3p
FormatWatercolour
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour on card
Dimensions232x179mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1841.0015
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0167
RelatedRecordPT/25/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7525Toynbee; Joseph (1815 - 1866)1815 - 1866
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