Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] mb-width 4629 Tandem-seated quadricycles were commonplace at

Tandem-seated quadricycles were commonplace at the turn of the century

April 1958

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In May 1864

Ovaries of Ornithorhynchus paradoxicus [Platypus] mb-width 4629 Tandem-seated quadricycles were commonplace atPlate 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.