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Drawings, ligamentum nuchae of sheep and artery by [Frederic Carpenter Skey?]

Reference number: PT/74/4/22

Date: 1837

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Plate 19, figures 4 and 6 showing a ligamentum nuchae [neck ligament] from a sheep and the middle coat of an artery. Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription above reads 'A Ligamentum Nuchae - from the sheep. B Arterial Tissue'. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Green & Son 1831'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Anatomy / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the elementary structure of the muscular fibre of animal and organic life' by Frederic Carpenter Skey.

Received by the Royal Society on 8 June 1837. Read 15 June 1837.

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PT/74/4/22
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1837
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Ink on paper
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1 page
Format
Drawing

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Frederic Carpenter Skey

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Frederic Carpenter Skey, Drawings, ligamentum nuchae of sheep and artery by [Frederic Carpenter Skey?], 1837, PT/74/4/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_4_22/drawings-ligamentum-nuchae-of-sheep-and-artery-by-frederic-carpenter-skey, accessed on 06 December 2025

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