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Paper, 'Observations intended to shew that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/6/8

Date: 1812

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Corresponding plates showing abdominal muscles of the boa constrictor erroneously bound into 1813 volume of Philosophical Transactions found at PT/7/27i. 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.

Abstract 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 1, 1832.

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PT/6/8
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1812
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Ink on paper
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13 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Observations intended to shew that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs' by Everard Home, 1812, PT/6/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_6_8/paper-observations-intended-to-shew-that-the-progressive-motion-of-snakes-is-partly-performed-by-means-of-the-ribs-by-everard-home, accessed on 14 August 2026

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