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

Sue Pulford

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

View of George B Greenough's villa in Regent's Park

seated cross legged on

Both of the women are wearing the full hooped shirt dresses that were fashionable at the time

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.