The eccaleobion : a treatise on artificial incubation / by William Bucknell.

  • Bucknell, William.
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The eccaleobion : a treatise on artificial incubation / by William Bucknell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    TERMS OiF ADMISSION, &c. TO THE ECCALEOBIOJV. This most extraordinary and wonderful Exhibition of the production of Animal Life by Machinery, with all its accom- panying interesting phenomena, is open to the Public, from Ten to Six o’Clock. Admittance, One Shilling. The average number of birds capable of being brought into existence daily by this machine, exceeds 100, or about 40,000 per annum. As the fresh, impregnated egg of any bird, from a wren to an eagle, can be elicited into life at the same temperature, persons bringing the eggs of canaries, goldfinches, poultry, or any bird, may place them in the Machine for hatching, mark- ing the same with their initials, upon payment of one shilling each egg, and will receive a Free Admission Ticket for as many days as their respective number of eggs, whereby they ^vlll be enabled to watch the progress of the nascent birds to maturity. Any persona desirous of seeing a bird in its nascent, or partly-formed state, at any period of incnbation, will have an egg broken for them, upon payment of one shilling per egg Persons (particularly men' of science) desirous of investi- gating the process of Incnbation, from the first microscopic speck of vital existence, to its full developement in a perfect and healthy being, may receive a Ticket of Admission for twenty-one days, with the privilege of breaking an ego- each day-for One Guinea. Parents and the guardians of youth, desirous that tb«- charge shall behold this secret workfng of’an AC^ht Hln; 1 lave an allowance made, according to the number f children admitted. Schools, also, will be admLr t le whole process of incubation upon the same liberal term™