Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] mb-width 4629 April 1958

April 1958

The Lord Mayor is seated in the centre at a table set with various fruits

In May 1864

Depiction of a hunting trip on 28 April 1830

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] mb-width 4629 April 1958Plate 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.