Author: Owen, [R.]
Title: On the marsupial pouches, mammary glands, and mammary foetus of the Echidna hystrix.
Description: London, The Zoological Society, 1865. Large 4to. 16 pp., three lithographed plates. Later wrappers. = Well-illustrated paper with a large illustration of the whole animal by Joseph Wolf, and fine illustrations of the anatomy and the young animals by Richard Owen himself. This is te short-beaked echidna, now known as Tachyglossus aculeatus, an egg lying mammal from Australia. Publised in the Society's Zoological Transactions. Uncut, with wide margins. Plate extreme edges a bit age-toned and the imprint of a paper clip in the top margin of two plates, otherwise a good clean copy. Rare.

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