Paintings, ovaries and testes of the lamprey and conger eel by F [Franz Andreas] Bauer

Reference number: PT/73/10/18

Date: 1823

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Plate 15, figures 1-4 showing the ovaries and testicles of the lamprey, at magnifications of x2 and x5. Figures 5-7 show the ovaries, testicles, and air bladder of the conger eel, at natural size and at magnifications of x5 and x50. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in pencil lower left 'F. Bauer delt.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and earth worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 27 February 1823.

Reference number: PT/73/10/18
Earliest possible date: 1823
Physical description: Watercolour on paper
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Watercolour
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Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, ovaries and testes of the lamprey and conger eel by F [Franz Andreas] Bauer, 1823, PT/73/10/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_10_18/paintings-ovaries-and-testes-of-the-lamprey-and-conger-eel-by-f-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 23 January 2025

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On the double Organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and earth worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1833

DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0207
On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and earth worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1823

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0014

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Paper, 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, and the barnicle [sic] which impregnate themselves; and of the earth worm, the individuals of which tribe mutually impregnate one another' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/16/13

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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions
1802-1865 Reference number: PT
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
1807-1833 Reference number: PT/73
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113
1822-1823 Reference number: PT/73/10

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Dates: 1802-1865

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