'Dormouse [stomach]' corpulent 5th December 1980

5th December 1980

11th November 1970

John Ross and his nephew James Clark Ross endured four winters trapped in the Arctic ice on an expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage

and behind him is Captain Marcellus Laroon

'Dormouse [stomach]' corpulent 5th December 1980Plate 6, figures 4 and 5 from the paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp. 139 179. Showing external and internal views of the stomach of a dormouse. The work is inscribed above with publishing and plate details, figure descriptions, and below 'Natural Size. Dormouse.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on board.