Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Jim Baxter and Denis Law

Jim Baxter and Denis Law of Scotland practice before their International against Ireland

View of the White Horse Inn on Fetter Lane

stands in a cockney garden

In 1876 a competition was held to design a new crossing over the Thames below London Bridge

John Hunter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] Finish:Float frame Jim Baxter and Denis LawPlate 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.