| RefNo | PT/73/13/3 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Painting, lower jaw and throat of alligator dissected by Canton |
| Date | [1827] |
| Description | Plate 11, figure 2 showing the under part of the lower jaw and throat of an alligator under dissection, showing the musk gland and its muscle. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'Canton ad nat: del:'. Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the structure and use of the submaxillary odoriferous gland in the genus crocodilus' by Thomas Bell.
Read to the Royal Society on 1 March 1827. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on artists' board |
| Dimensions | 276x220mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1827.0015 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0318 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7505 | Bell; Thomas (1792 - 1880) | 1792 - 1880 |