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Unpublished paper, 'On the penetration of spermatozoa into the interior of the ovum; a note, showing this to have been recorded as an established fact in the Philosophical Transactions for 1843' by Martin Barry

Reference number: AP/34/3

Date: 1853

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Barry refers to Henry Nelson's paper 'The reproduction of the ascaris mystax' (see PT/45/3), in which Nelson claims that his observations of the penetration of spermatozoa into the interior of the ovum are novel. Barry further refers to his own paper 'Spermatozoa observed within the mammiferous ovum' (see PT/27/4) as evidence of his earlier observations of this phenomenon.

Subject: Biology / Reproduction

Received 24 February 1853.

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 penetration of spermatozoa into the interior of the ovum; a note showing this to have been recorded as an established fact in the Philosophical Transactions for 1843'.

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AP/34/3
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1853
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4 pages
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Martin Barry, Unpublished paper, 'On the penetration of spermatozoa into the interior of the ovum; a note, showing this to have been recorded as an established fact in the Philosophical Transactions for 1843' by Martin Barry, 1853, AP/34/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_3/unpublished-paper-on-the-penetration-of-spermatozoa-into-the-interior-of-the-ovum-a-note-showing-this-to-have-been-recorded-as-an-established-fact-in-the-philosophical-transactions-for-1843-by-martin-barry, accessed on 19 March 2025

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