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Plates, accompanying paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. On the internal structure of the human brain, when examined in the microscope, as compared with that of fishes, insects and worms' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/17/i

Date: 1823

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Two plates by Franz Bauer that accompany Home's paper published in Philosophical Transactions. File does not include manuscript. Plates housed in same folder as PT/17/1.

Subject: Anatomy / Zoology

Paper published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Croonian Lecture. On the internal structure of the human brain, when examined in the microscope, as compared with that of fishes, insects and worms'.

Read 20 November 1823.

Abstract of Home's paper published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

Reference number
PT/17/i
Earliest possible date
1823
Physical description
Watercolour on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Watercolour

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home, Franz Andreas Bauer, Plates, accompanying paper titled 'The Croonian Lecture. On the internal structure of the human brain, when examined in the microscope, as compared with that of fishes, insects and worms' by Sir Everard Home, 1823, PT/17/i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_i/plates-accompanying-paper-titled-the-croonian-lecture-on-the-internal-structure-of-the-human-brain-when-examined-in-the-microscope-as-compared-with-that-of-fishes-insects-and-worms-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 24 January 2025

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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