Drawings, Malpighian bodies in the livers of various animals by [William Bowman]
Reference number: PT/75/2/1
Date: 1842
Description
Plate 4, figures 1-17 showing Malpighian bodies in the livers of various animals, including a horse, a rabbit, a human, a guinea pig, a parrot, a boa constrictor, and a frog. The last two figures show diagrams of renal circulation in mammalia. Inscribed with publication and plate details recto and verso. Figures drawn separately and mounted onto backing sheet. Not signed.
Subject: Physiology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland' by William Bowman.
Received by the Royal Society on 14 February 1842. Read 17 February 1842.
- Reference number
- PT/75/2/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1842
- Physical description
- Graphite and watercolour on paper, mounted on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Drawing
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William Bowman, Drawings, Malpighian bodies in the livers of various animals by [William Bowman], 1842, PT/75/2/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_2_1/drawings-malpighian-bodies-in-the-livers-of-various-animals-by-william-bowman, accessed on 15 March 2026
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IV. On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1842
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1842.0005
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On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1843
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0186
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Paper, 'On the structure and use of the "Malpighian bodies" of the kidney, with observations on the circulation through that gland' by W [William] Bowman
Creator: William Bowman Reference number: PT/26/3
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840-1859
1840-1859 Reference number: PT/75 -
Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 132
1841-1842 Reference number: PT/75/2
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William Bowman
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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