Indian elephant eardrum Shaftesbury Avenue Half-length portrait of a confident-looking

Half-length portrait of a confident-looking man in spectacles

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Inscription in Latin by Philip Howard

Indian elephant eardrum Shaftesbury Avenue Half-length portrait of a confident-lookingPlate 3 figure 3 from the paper 'On the difference of structure between the human Membrana Tympani and that of the elephant', by Sir Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 23 26. Showing the eardrum of a three week old Indian elephant at at natural size, from a specimen provided by Sir Stamford Raffles. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink lower left 'W. Clift.' Royal Society stamp