Earthworm eggs and their development Size:L: 90 x 60cm The carriage is shown on

The carriage is shown on a turntable situated to the north side of the Parsonstown 72-inch reflecting telescope

1641 (c1750)

Parliament was still sitting

The printed description notes that the main building is decorated 'with three emblematic figures in alto relief

Earthworm eggs and their development Size:L: 90 x 60cm The carriage is shown onPlate 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