Drawing, solvent glands of birds by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/3/17
Date: 1812
Description
Details of solvent glands of various named birds from plate 17. Date and plate details above. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso with key inscription. Lightly inscribed in pencil throughout.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 18 June 1812.
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- PT/73/3/17
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- 1812
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- Graphite on paper
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- 2 pages
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- Drawing
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William Clift, Everard Home, Drawing, solvent glands of birds by [William Clift], 1812, PT/73/3/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_3_17/drawing-solvent-glands-of-birds-by-william-clift, accessed on 14 June 2025
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On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0255
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XX. On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1812
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1812.0023
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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 102
1811-1812 Reference number: PT/73/3
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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