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Unpublished paper, 'On the reproduction of the toad and frog without the intermediate stage of tadpole' by Edward Joseph Lowe

Reference number: AP/34/14

Date: 17 February 1853

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Lowe shares brief remarks on the toad (Bufo vulgaris) and the frog (Rana temporaria), suggesting that they are viviparous.

Subject: Biology / Zoology / Herpetology

Received 19 February 1853. Communicated by John Lee.

Written by Lowe at the Observatory Beeston, Near Nottingham [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 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 reproduction of the toad and frog without the intermediate stage of tadpole'.

A version of this paper was published by Lowe in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Lowe, Edward Joseph. 'On the reproduction of the toad and frog without the intermediate stage of tadpole.' The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 11, number 64 (1853), pp. 341-342.

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AP/34/14
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17 February 1853
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Joseph Lowe

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Edward Joseph Lowe, Unpublished paper, 'On the reproduction of the toad and frog without the intermediate stage of tadpole' by Edward Joseph Lowe, 17 February 1853, AP/34/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_14/unpublished-paper-on-the-reproduction-of-the-toad-and-frog-without-the-intermediate-stage-of-tadpole-by-edward-joseph-lowe, accessed on 17 February 2025

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