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Unpublished paper, 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Shipley

Reference number: AP/66/16

Date: 1889

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Shipley's observations on Phymosoma varians are made on a number of specimens taken from soft coral rock of the Bahamas by [Raphael] Weldon. The length of the fully extended specimens averages 5cm, the greatest diameter about 5mm. The introvert is equal in length to the rest of the body.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Palaeontology / Zoology

Received 1 May 1889. Read 16 May 1889. Communicated by Adam Sedgwick.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On Phymosoma varians'.

A version of this paper was published by Shipley in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science [later Journal of Cell Science]: Shipley, Arthur. 'Memoirs: On Phymosoma varians.' The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, volume s2-31, number 121 (1890), pp. 1-28.

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AP/66/16
Earliest possible date
1889
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
44 pages
Format
Typescript
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Creator name

Arthur Shipley

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Arthur Shipley, Unpublished paper, 'On Phymosoma varians' by Arthur Shipley, 1889, AP/66/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_66_16/unpublished-paper-on-phymosoma-varians-by-arthur-shipley, accessed on 07 October 2024

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