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Drawings, blood corpuscles from various foetal animals by [Martin Barry]

Reference number: PT/75/1/35

Date: 1841

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Plate 22, figures 104-122 showing blood corpuscles from foetal animals including an ox [Bos taurus; cattle], a rabbit [Lepus cuniculus; Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit], a common fowl [Phasianus gallus; chicken], and a tadpole. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Figures drawn separately and mounted onto backing board. Not signed.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the corpuscles of the blood.— Part III' by Martin Barry.

Received and read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1841.

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PT/75/1/35
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1841
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Graphite on paper, mounted on blue board. Large portion of backing board ripped off in bottom right
Page extent
1 page
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Drawing

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Martin Barry

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Martin Barry, Drawings, blood corpuscles from various foetal animals by [Martin Barry], 1841, PT/75/1/35, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_1_35/drawings-blood-corpuscles-from-various-foetal-animals-by-martin-barry, accessed on 10 November 2025

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