Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-artistname E Duncan It is not that book-learning

It is not that book-learning is bad for a boy

1st May 1971

'Injured Innocence and his Billet-Doo'

Salters' Hall and part of the Salters' Hall Chapel for Protestant Dissenters

Hen's egg and dissected embryo mb-artistname E Duncan It is not that book-learningPlate 39 from the paper 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 339 356. Three figures showing the egg at eighteen days' development with the egg opened to show the embryo in situ: and the embryo dissected to show the yolk being drawn into the body. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer del.' Original: watercolour on board. 1822