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Drawings, ova and embryos of the rabbit, frog, newt, and human by T [Thomas] Wharton Jones

Reference number: PT/74/4/7

Date: 1837

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Plate 16, figures 1-13 showing ova of the rabbit, frog, newt, and human after impregnation and embryos of the newt and frog. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto a single backing sheet. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink bottom left 'ad nat. del't. T. Wharton Jones.' The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the first changes in the ova of the mammifera in consequence of impregnation, and on the mode of origin of the chorion' by Thomas Wharton Jones.

Received by the Royal Society on 16 March 1837. Read 27 April 1837.

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PT/74/4/7
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1837
Physical description
Graphite and ink wash on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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Thomas Wharton Jones

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Thomas Wharton Jones, Drawings, ova and embryos of the rabbit, frog, newt, and human by T [Thomas] Wharton Jones, 1837, PT/74/4/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_4_7/drawings-ova-and-embryos-of-the-rabbit-frog-newt-and-human-by-t-thomas-wharton-jones, accessed on 15 April 2026

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