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Drawings, mammary foetuses of the pygmy opossum and kangaroo by [Richard Owen]

Reference number: PT/74/1/7

Date: 1834

Description

Plate 7, figures 6-7 and 9-12 showing mammary foetuses of the pgymy opossum [Acrobates pygmaeus; feathertail glider] and the kangaroo, including details of the brain. The figures are drawn on individual cards (figures 9-12 on one card) and mounted on a single backing sheet. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the generation of the marsupial animals, with a description of the impregnated uterus of the Kangaroo' by Richard Owen.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 January 1834. Read 24 April 1834.

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PT/74/1/7
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1834
Physical description
Graphite on paper, mounted on backing sheet
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Drawings, mammary foetuses of the pygmy opossum and kangaroo by [Richard Owen], 1834, PT/74/1/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_1_7/drawings-mammary-foetuses-of-the-pygmy-opossum-and-kangaroo-by-richard-owen, accessed on 12 August 2026

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