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Drawing, vertebrae of the spines of birds by H [Henry] Earle

Reference number: PT/73/9/33

Date: 1822

Description

Unpublished illustration showing five figures of spinal vertebrae, inscribed in pencil 'NB This drawing was cancelled, and another substituted for it! T.C.' [Taylor Combe]. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed 'Mr H. Earle 28 George St. Hanover Square [London]'. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Slade'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the mechanism of the spine' by Henry Earle.

Read to the Royal Society on 25 April 1822.

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PT/73/9/33
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1822
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Pencil on paper
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1 page
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Drawing
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Henry Earle

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Henry Earle, Drawing, vertebrae of the spines of birds by H [Henry] Earle, 1822, PT/73/9/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_33/drawing-vertebrae-of-the-spines-of-birds-by-h-henry-earle, accessed on 08 November 2025

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