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Unpublished paper, 'Researches on the poison-apparatus in the Actiniadae [Actiniidae]' by Philip Henry Gosse

Reference number: AP/40/14

Date: 1858

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Gosse describes the 'thread-cells' or 'cnidae' of the Actiniidae, which 'are found in various tissues of the body, but are specially localized in two sets of organs'. He goes on to describe the anatomy, physiology and 'toxicoferous armature' of the Actiniidae.

Includes three pages of figures of Actiniidae and the cells of their 'poison-apparatus'. Marked on front as 'Archives'.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Received 18 January 1858.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Researches on the poison-apparatus in the actiniadae'.

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AP/40/14
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1858
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
34 pages
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Manuscript

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Philip Henry Gosse

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Philip Henry Gosse, Unpublished paper, 'Researches on the poison-apparatus in the Actiniadae [Actiniidae]' by Philip Henry Gosse, 1858, AP/40/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_40_14/unpublished-paper-researches-on-the-poison-apparatus-in-the-actiniadae-actiniidae-by-philip-henry-gosse, accessed on 09 March 2026

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