Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched first in twin cylinder and

first in twin cylinder and later in four-cylinder form

With Old Father Thames constantly drawing them

View of the 'dipping' well in Hyde Park

Stig Blomqvist

From the Gentleman's Magazine

Ovaries of an American Opossum Finish:Stretched first in twin cylinder andPlate 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