Earthworm eggs and their development Size:Large: 7 x 5in c1750 with a street scene

c1750 with a street scene and horse drawn vehicles

Illustration showing the hip bone and a portion of the femur

The sitter is turned to the right as viewed

They are found at Huel Gorland mine in Cornwall

Earthworm eggs and their development Size:Large: 7 x 5in c1750 with a street scenePlate 19 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and the earthworm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 140 151. Details of the sexual organs, eggs and embryos of the earthworm. Figures 1 4 show the testicle, ovaries and egg