Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:M: 75 x 50cm dressed for Scotland

dressed for Scotland

Sketches of two types of extinct armoured fossil fish from the class Placodermi

other uniformed figures by the tents

The accompanying text states that: 'This animal is the size of a rat

Cardiac cavities and gizzards of birds Size:M: 75 x 50cm dressed for ScotlandPlate 12 from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Line drawings of four figures showing internal structures of the woodpecker, seagull and little auk. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details