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Plate 15, figures 2-3 showing a view at natural size and a magnified view of the inferior extremity of the femur. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A thin covering sheet reads 'No. 9' in ink recto; description of plate verso. Signed in ink bottom right 'H. Holmes Dec. 9. 1840.'

Subject: Physiology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid appendages' by Joseph Toynbee.

Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841.

Reference number
PT/75/1/19
Earliest possible date
09 December 1840
Physical description
Watercolour and ink on artists' paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Drawing

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Joseph Toynbee

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Joseph Toynbee, Drawings, inferior extremity of femur by H Holmes, 09 December 1840, PT/75/1/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_19/drawings-inferior-extremity-of-femur-by-h-holmes, accessed on 22 March 2025

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