Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched From the Gentleman's Magazine

From the Gentleman's Magazine

A toadstool

With Old Father Thames constantly drawing them

here termed 'crystallized carbonate of lime

for having accompanied his vehicle throughout

Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched From the Gentleman's MagazinePlate 17 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. Eight figures of magnified and sectioned overies of animals 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. 1819