Painting, cassowary gizzard by [John Howship]
Reference number: PT/73/4/3
Date: 1812?
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Plate 4 showing a view of the gizzard of the 'Casaurius Emu' [Northern or dwarf cassowary?] of Java [Indonesia]. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details, the plate number repeated lower right. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long-legged casowary from New South Wales' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1812.
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- PT/73/4/3
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- 1812?
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- Ink wash on paper
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- 1 page
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- Painting
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Everard Home, Painting, cassowary gizzard by [John Howship], 1812?, PT/73/4/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_4_3/painting-cassowary-gizzard-by-john-howship, accessed on 25 March 2025
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A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long-legged cassowary from New South Wales External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1832
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1800.0264
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IX. A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long-legged casowary from New South Wales External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1813
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1813.0012
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Paper, 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the ardea argala, the casuarius emu, and the long legged casawary [cassowary] from New South Wales' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/7/9
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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 103
1811-1813 Reference number: PT/73/4
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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