Ovum of a hen and egg yolks mb-code DCA_113802 showing three women

showing three women

Inscribed in pencil top right 'Photog 251'

View showing the Adelphi Hotel and hatmaker's shop window

Queen Victoria riding in a carriage in Hyde Park

Seated portrait of the singer Mary Ann Paton

Ovum of a hen and egg yolks mb-code DCA_113802 showing three womenPlate 32 from the paper 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 339 356. Twelve figures showing the ovum of a hen 'that had been laying for some time' with magnified views of the yolk of an egg and views of the egg, including in the oviduct and newly laid. With details of publication and plate details inscribed. Signed