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Plate 40 containing three figures showing the embryo within the egg at 20 days' incubation, the chick removed from the egg, and dissected to show the yolk drawn into the body. With publication and plate details inscribed. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Royal Society stamp verso. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl, illustrated by microscopical drawings' by Everard Home.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 May 1822.

Reference number
PT/73/9/43
Earliest possible date
1822
Physical description
Watercolour on artists' board
Page extent
1 page
Format
Watercolour

Creator names

Franz Andreas Bauer

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Everard Home

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Franz Andreas Bauer, Everard Home, Paintings, chicken embryo by Franz [Andreas] Bauer, 1822, PT/73/9/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_9_43/paintings-chicken-embryo-by-franz-andreas-bauer, accessed on 08 November 2024

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