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Drawings, rabbit ova aborted and in development by Martin Barry

Reference number: PT/74/6/4

Date: 1839

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Plate 8, figures 128-150 showing ova of the rabbit [Lepus cuniculus; Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit], both aborted and in development into embryos. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Figures 128-130, 133-139, 143-145, and 150 drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. Signed in graphite bottom left 'Ad Nat. del. Martin Barry'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Biology / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches in embryology.—Second series' by Martin Barry.

Received by the Royal Society on 28 March 1839. Read 18 April 1839.

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PT/74/6/4
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1839
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Graphite on board
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1 page
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Drawing

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Martin Barry

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Martin Barry, Drawings, rabbit ova aborted and in development by Martin Barry, 1839, PT/74/6/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_6_4/drawings-rabbit-ova-aborted-and-in-development-by-martin-barry, accessed on 18 January 2026

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