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Painting, internal section of the auditory structures in Balaena mysticetus [bowhead whale] by Wm [William] Clift

Reference number: PT/73/3/2

Date: 01 January 1811

Description

Plate 2 showing an internal section of the organs of hearing in the bowhead whale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Wm. Clift del. 1811.' Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of some peculiarities in the structure of the organ of hearing in the Balæna Mysticetus of Linnæus' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 12 December 1811.

Reference number
PT/73/3/2
Earliest possible date
01 January 1811
Physical description
Watercolour on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour
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William Clift

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Everard Home

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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, internal section of the auditory structures in Balaena mysticetus [bowhead whale] by Wm [William] Clift, 01 January 1811, PT/73/3/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_3_2/painting-internal-section-of-the-auditory-structures-in-balaena-mysticetus-bowhead-whale-by-wm-william-clift, accessed on 15 August 2026

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