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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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AP/39/19
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April 1856
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3 pages
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John Denis Macdonald

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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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