| Description | Plate 13, figures 1-2 showing two views of the extremity of the femur of a foetus of five months, showing a canal for the epiphysal blood vessels. Inscribed with title, publication, and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 1' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Dec. 1840.' Embossed stamp in top left corner reads 'Dobbs London'.
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. |