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Drawings, vegetable germ and rabbit embryos by [Martin Barry]

Reference number: PT/74/7/16

Date: 1840

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Plate 28, figures 235-253 showing vegetable germs and embryonic cells from the fallopian tube of the rabbit [Lepus cuniculus; Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit] after impregnation. Inscribed with figure, publication, and plate details. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. Not signed.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches in embryology. Third series: A contribution to the physiology of cells' by Martin Barry.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 April 1840. Read 7 May 1840.

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PT/74/7/16
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1840
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Graphite on paper; mounted on black paper
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1 page
Format
Drawing

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Martin Barry

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Martin Barry, Drawings, vegetable germ and rabbit embryos by [Martin Barry], 1840, PT/74/7/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_7_16/drawings-vegetable-germ-and-rabbit-embryos-by-martin-barry, accessed on 21 January 2025

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