| RefNo | PT/74/1/35 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, disappearance of external yolk vesicle in young torpedos by unknown artist |
| Date | [1834] |
| Description | Plate 23, figures 1-4 showing the gradual disappearance of the external yolk vesicle in a young torpedo or electric ray. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Embossed stamp in top right corner reads 'Heath & Co Bristol Paper'. 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. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Painting |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 283x230mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1834.0026 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0168 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3369 | Davy; John (1790 - 1868); surgeon | 1790 - 1868 |