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Plate 37 showing a magnified view of the muscles, tracheae, and nervous system of the posterior portion of a body in the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh segments of an unspecified insect. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology / Entomology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the respiration of insects' by George Newport.

Received and read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1836.

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PT/74/3/26
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1836
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Graphite on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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George Newport

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George Newport, Drawing, muscles, tracheae, and nervous system by [George Newport], 1836, PT/74/3/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_3_26/drawing-muscles-tracheae-and-nervous-system-by-george-newport, accessed on 08 February 2026

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