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Unpublished paper, 'On the respiratory organs of the common leech (hirudo officinalis, linn.) and their connections with the circulatory system' by George Newport

Reference number: AP/17/11

Date: June 1833

Description

Newport shares his observations on the physiology of the common leech. Includes tabulated experimental results relating to leech lung capacity at different temperatures.

Subject: Zoology / Entomology

Received 5 June 1833. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the respiratory organs of the common leech (hirudo officinalis, linn.), and their connexions with the circulatory system'.

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AP/17/11
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June 1833
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7 pages
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George Newport, Unpublished paper, 'On the respiratory organs of the common leech (hirudo officinalis, linn.) and their connections with the circulatory system' by George Newport, June 1833, AP/17/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_17_11/unpublished-paper-on-the-respiratory-organs-of-the-common-leech-hirudo-officinalis-linn-and-their-connections-with-the-circulatory-system-by-george-newport, accessed on 20 April 2025

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