Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched A toadstool

A toadstool

here termed 'crystallized carbonate of lime

With Old Father Thames constantly drawing them

first in twin cylinder and later in four-cylinder form

Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched A toadstoolPlate 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