Unpublished paper, 'Brief sketch of the anatomy of a new genus of pelagic Gasteropoda [sic] named Jasonilla' by John Denis MacDonald
Reference number: AP/37/7
Date: 10 December 1854
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MacDonald describes a genus of pelagic Gastropoda, characterised, like Macgillivraya and Cheletropis, by the presence of ciliated cephalic appendages, but having a transparent, cartilaginous and symmetrical shell. MacDonald has seen one species, found between Port Jackson and the Isle of Pines [Australia].
Annotations in pencil throughout. Followed by one page of figures.
Subject: Zoology
Read 30 March 1855. Communicated by Sir William Burnett.
Written by MacDonald at Sydney Harbour [Australia].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Brief sketch of the anatomy of a new genus of pelagic gasteropoda, named Jasonilla'.
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- AP/37/7
- Earliest possible date
- 10 December 1854
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
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John Denis Macdonald, Unpublished paper, 'Brief sketch of the anatomy of a new genus of pelagic Gasteropoda [sic] named Jasonilla' by John Denis MacDonald, 10 December 1854, AP/37/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_7/unpublished-paper-brief-sketch-of-the-anatomy-of-a-new-genus-of-pelagic-gasteropoda-sic-named-jasonilla-by-john-denis-macdonald, accessed on 06 November 2024
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0084
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855
1853-1855 Reference number: AP/37
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