Anatomy of hearing in Balaena mysticetus [Bowhead whale] Size:M: 75 x 50cm 'Cross-readings at Charing-Cross'

'Cross-readings at Charing-Cross'

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Anatomy of hearing in Balaena mysticetus [Bowhead whale] Size:M: 75 x 50cm 'Cross-readings at Charing-Cross'Plate 1 from the paper 'An account of some peculiarities in the structure of the organ of hearing in the Balaena mysticetus of Linaeus', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 83 89. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'W. Clift del. 1811.' Royal Society stamp verso. The animal was procured for Everard Home by William Scoresby from Greenland whaling grounds.