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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

Creator name

William Bowman

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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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