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Drawings, abdominal integument and mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix by [Richard Owen]

Reference number: PT/73/15/24

Date: 1832

Description

Plate 17, figures 2-3 (labelled here as figures 1-2) showing part of the abdominal integument and the mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix [Tachyglossus aculeatus; short-beaked echidna]. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Below is a key to the letters labelling parts of the anatomy represented in the figures. A faint pencil outline of figure 1 is visible below the figures, to appear underneath figures 2 and 3 in the published plate. Not signed.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832.

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PT/73/15/24
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1832
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Graphite on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Drawings, abdominal integument and mammary gland of the Echidna hystrix by [Richard Owen], 1832, PT/73/15/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_15_24/drawings-abdominal-integument-and-mammary-gland-of-the-echidna-hystrix-by-richard-owen, accessed on 21 January 2025

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