Reference number | PT/7/27i |
Level | File |
Title | Plates, from 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home |
Date | [1812] |
Description | Plates intended to accompany PT/6/8 erroneously bound into 1813 volume of Philosophical Transactions. Plates are ink and grey watercolour and show abdominal muscles of boa constrictor. Drawn by William Clift. A further illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscript and is found at PT/73/3/3.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs'.
Read 27 February 1812. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Drawing |
Physical description | Ink and watercolour on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0243 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0011 |
Related records in the catalogue | PT/6/8 |
PT/7/27i/1 |
PT/7/27i/2 |
PT/7/27i/3 |
PT/73/3/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA5449 | Home; Sir; James Everard (1798 - 1853) | 1798 - 1853 |
NA7491 | Clift; William (1775 - 1849); museum curator and scientific illustrator | 1775 - 1849 |