Painting, dugong respiratory system by [William Clift]
Reference number: PT/73/8/24
Date: 1820
Description
Plate 29 showing a portion of the trachea (figure 1) and lungs (figure 2) of a male dugong [Dugong dugon]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Inscribed verso 'Fig 1. Rings of lower portion of Trachea. Fig 2. Section of the Lung. The cells largest on the surface'. Watermarked 'W Turner & Son'.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' account of that animal' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 29 June 1820.
- Reference number
- PT/73/8/24
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
- Physical description
- Watercolour on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Watercolour
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, dugong respiratory system by [William Clift], 1820, PT/73/8/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_8_24/painting-dugong-respiratory-system-by-william-clift, accessed on 10 September 2026
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Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles’s account of that animal External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0135
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XX. Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' account of that animal External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1820
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0021
Related Records
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Paper, 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the dugong, not mentioned by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Intended as a supplement to Sir Stamford's account of that animal' by Sir Everard Home
Creator: Everard Home Reference number: PT/14/25
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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 110
1819-1820 Reference number: PT/73/8
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William Clift
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Everard Home
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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