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12 manuscript pages and three plates showing the male and female organs of the axolotl in various stages of development.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the organs of generation of the Mexican proteus, called by the natives axolotl'.

Read 17 June 1824.

Abstract of the 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/17/13
Earliest possible date
1824
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'An account of the organs of generation of the Mexican proteus called by the natives axolotl' by Sir Everard Home, 1824, PT/17/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_13/paper-an-account-of-the-organs-of-generation-of-the-mexican-proteus-called-by-the-natives-axolotl-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 15 September 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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