| RefNo | PT/71/6/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Mammary foetus of Echidna hystrix and ornithorhynchus' by Prof [Richard] Owen |
| Date | 1865 |
| Description | Figures 7-14 from plate XL and figures 3-5 from plate XLI showing several views of the feet and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix [short-beaked echidna] and the jaw, nostrils, eyes, and ears of the young of the ornithorhynchus [platypus].
Subject: Zoology / Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands, and mammary fœtus of the Echidna hystrix'.
Received by the Royal Society on 18 February 1865. Read 2 March 1865. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0015 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/5/165 |
| RR/5/169 |
| PT/71/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8083 | Owen; Sir; Richard (1804 - 1892); comparative anatomist and palaeontologist | 1804 - 1892 |