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Drawings, incisor and molar of Lepus timidus by W Wing

Reference number: PT/75/4/24

Date: 01 January 1850

Description

Plate 46, figures 50-52 showing sections of the molar and the lower incisor, as well as the vascular canal of the incisor of the Lepus timidus [mountain hare]. Inscribed with figure, publication, and plate details. Figures dated in pencil to January 1850. Signed in pencil bottom left 'W Wing del'.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the structure of the dental tissues of the order Rodentia' by John Tomes.

Received by the Royal Society on 19 February 1850. Read 30 May 1850.

Reference number
PT/75/4/24
Earliest possible date
01 January 1850
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Graphite on artists' paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Drawing

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John Tomes

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John Tomes, Drawings, incisor and molar of Lepus timidus by W Wing, 01 January 1850, PT/75/4/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_4_24/drawings-incisor-and-molar-of-lepus-timidus-by-w-wing, accessed on 20 April 2026

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