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Paper, 'On the development and homologies of the molar teeth of the wart-hogs (phacochœrus) with illustrations of a system of notation for the teeth in the class mammalia' by Professor [Richard] Owen

Reference number: PT/38/10

Date: 1849

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the development and homologies of the molar teeth of the wart-hogs (phacochœrus), with Illustrations of a system of notation for the teeth in the class mammalia'.

Received by the Royal Society on 12 November 1849. Read 7 February 1850.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/38/10
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1849
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41 pages
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Richard Owen, Paper, 'On the development and homologies of the molar teeth of the wart-hogs (phacochœrus) with illustrations of a system of notation for the teeth in the class mammalia' by Professor [Richard] Owen, 1849, PT/38/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_10/paper-on-the-development-and-homologies-of-the-molar-teeth-of-the-wart-hogs-phacochœrus-with-illustrations-of-a-system-of-notation-for-the-teeth-in-the-class-mammalia-by-professor-richard-owen, accessed on 15 February 2026

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