Painting, New Georgia seal skull by Wm [William] Clift
Reference number: PT/73/9/32
Date: 01 January 1822
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Plate 29 showing a side view of the skull of a seal preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The animal was 'brought by Mr Kearn, in a Whaler, from New Georgia [Solomon Islands], near the ice towards the South Pole'. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed and inscribed lower left 'Wm. Clift delin. 1822. Scale. Half an Inch to an Inch.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the difference in the appearance of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals' by Everard Home.
Read to the Royal Society on 28 February 1822.
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- PT/73/9/32
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- 01 January 1822
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William Clift, Everard Home, Painting, New Georgia seal skull by Wm [William] Clift, 01 January 1822, PT/73/9/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_32/painting-new-georgia-seal-skull-by-wm-william-clift, accessed on 15 October 2024
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On the difference in the appearance of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0181
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XVIII. On the difference in the appearance of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1822
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1822.0019
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1807-1833
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 112
Reference number: PT/73/9
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Dates: 1802-1865
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