Paper, 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of Alcyonidae' by John Denis Macdonald
Reference number: AP/39/19
Date: April 1856
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Macdonald shares observations from Conway Reef [Fiji] of a 'beautiful branched asteroid zoophyte'.
Includes one page of figures of the species identified by Macdonald.
Subject: Marine organisms
Received 13 January 1857. Read 12 March 1857. Communicated by Captain [Henry Mangles] Denham.
A version of this paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of alcyonidæ'.
A version of this paper was published by Macdonald in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Macdonald, John Denis. 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of Alcyonidœ.' The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume 19, number 113 (1857), p. 391.
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John Denis Macdonald, Paper, 'Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of Alcyonidae' by John Denis Macdonald, April 1856, AP/39/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_19/paper-anatomical-description-of-a-species-of-asteroid-polypes-probably-forming-the-type-of-a-new-genus-of-alcyonidae-by-john-denis-macdonald, accessed on 12 November 2024
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IV. Anatomical description of a species of asteroid polypes, probably forming the type of a new genus of alcyonidæ External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0107
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
1856-1857 Reference number: AP/39
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