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Plates, from 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/7/27i

Date: 1812

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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.

Reference number
PT/7/27i
Earliest possible date
1812
Physical description
Ink and watercolour on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Drawing

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James Everard Home

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William Clift

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James Everard Home, William Clift, Plates, from 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home, 1812, PT/7/27i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_7_27i/plates-from-observations-intended-to-show-that-the-progressive-motion-of-snakes-is-partly-performed-by-means-of-the-ribs-by-everard-home, accessed on 05 December 2024

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