Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Trevor Steven

Trevor Steven

confirming the Production of Light by the Effluvia of one Glass falling on another'

seated cross legged on

spiracle of female

claimed the throne

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Trevor StevenPlate 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.