Painting, Indian elephant eardrum by W [William] Clift
Reference number: PT/73/10/4
Date: 1822
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Plate 3, figure 3 showing the eardrum of a three-week-old Indian elephant at natural size, from a specimen provided by Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left 'W. Clift.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the difference of structure between the human membrana tympani and that of the elephant' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1822.
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- PT/73/10/4
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- 1822
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- Watercolour on paper
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- Watercolour
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On the difference of structure between the human membrana tympani and that of the elephant External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0199
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III. On the difference of structure between the human membrana tympani and that of the elephant External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1823
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1823.0005
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Paper, 'On the difference of structure between the human membrana tympani and that of the elephant' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/16/3
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 113
1822-1823 Reference number: PT/73/10
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William Clift
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Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles
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Everard Home
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