Cerebellum of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Derby Obstruction'

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Cerebellum of the Squalus maximus [Basking shark] Size:S: 36 x 28cm 'A Derby Obstruction'Plate 20 from the paper 'Additions to an account of the anatomy of the Squalus maximus, contained in a former paper; with observations on the structure of the branchial artery', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 103 (1813), pp. 227 241. From an original specimen caught at Brighton and brought to London for dissection in December 1812. View of the upper surface of the cerebellum and nerves. The work is inscribed