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RefNoPT/75/2/1
LevelItem
TitleDrawings, Malpighian bodies in the livers of various animals by [William Bowman]
Date[1842]
DescriptionPlate 4, figures 1-17 showing Malpighian bodies in the livers of various animals, including a horse, a rabbit, a human, a guinea pig, a parrot, a boa constrictor, and a frog. The last two figures show diagrams of renal circulation in mammalia. Inscribed with publication and plate details recto and verso. Figures drawn separately and mounted onto backing sheet. Not signed.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland' by William Bowman.

Received by the Royal Society on 14 February 1842. Read 17 February 1842.
Extent2p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite and watercolour on paper, mounted on paper
Dimensions282x214mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1842.0005
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0186
RelatedRecordPT/26/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3689Bowman; Sir; William (1816 - 1892)1816 - 1892
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