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Three manuscript pages and one plate showing the anatomy of the Macgillivrayia pelagica and other pelagic gasteropods.

Subject: Zoology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Further observations on the anatomy of Macgillivrayia, Cheletropis, and allied genera of pelagic gasteropoda'.

Communicated by Sir William Burnett. Received by the Royal Society on 22 February 1855. Read 22 March 1855.

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 7, 1856.

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PT/51/6
Earliest possible date
1855
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Denis Macdonald

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John Denis Macdonald, Paper, 'Further observations on the anatomy of Macgillivrayia, Cheletropis, and allied genera of pelagic gasteropoda' by John Denis Macdonald, 1855, PT/51/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_51_6/paper-further-observations-on-the-anatomy-of-macgillivrayia-cheletropis-and-allied-genera-of-pelagic-gasteropoda-by-john-denis-macdonald, accessed on 02 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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