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Unpublished paper, 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis, and subepidermic lymphatics' by George Hoggan and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan

Reference number: AP/59/4

Date: 1877

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The authors state that, by means of certain modifications in known methods of histological research, a full description of which they offer, they have been enabled to show the minute structure and relationships of lymphatics of the skin in mammals.

Annotations in ink throughout. Marked on front as 'Archives Mar 21/78'. Followed by a letter dated 22 November 1877.

Subject: Physiology

Received 11 May 1877. Read 14 June 1877. Communicated by William Farr.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 26 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the mammalian skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis and subepidermic lymphatics'.

Reference number
AP/59/4
Earliest possible date
1877
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Ink on paper
Page extent
40 pages
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Manuscript

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George Hoggan

Frances Elizabeth Hoggan

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George Hoggan, Frances Elizabeth Hoggan, Unpublished paper, 'On the minute structure and relationships of the lymphatics of the skin, and on the ultimate distribution of nerves to the epidermis, and subepidermic lymphatics' by George Hoggan and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan, 1877, AP/59/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_59_4/unpublished-paper-on-the-minute-structure-and-relationships-of-the-lymphatics-of-the-skin-and-on-the-ultimate-distribution-of-nerves-to-the-epidermis-and-subepidermic-lymphatics-by-george-hoggan-and-frances-elizabeth-hoggan, accessed on 10 November 2024

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