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An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.

An opossum. Watercolour.

Memoir on the reproduction of the opossum, Didelphis virginiana / by Ch.D. Meigs.

Facts, observations, and conjectures relative to the generation of the opossum of North-America / In a letter from Professor Barton to Mons. Roume, of Paris.

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An opossum. Watercolour.

Memoir on the reproduction of the opossum, Didelphis virginiana / by Ch.D. Meigs.

Facts, observations, and conjectures relative to the generation of the opossum of North-America / In a letter from Professor Barton to Mons. Roume, of Paris.

An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.