Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Sue Pulford

Sue Pulford

South-west view of the London Orphan Asylum in Lower Clapton

spiracle of female

Charlton Athletic team training exercises at the Valley

claimed the throne

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Sue PulfordPlate 18 from the paper 'On the ova of the different tribes of Opossum and Ornithorhynchus', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 234 240. Nine figures of magnified and sectioned ovaries and yolk bag of the platypus [Ornithorhynchus anatinus] at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper.