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Paper, 'A new mode of respiration in the Myriapoda' by F G [Frederick Granville] Sinclair [Heathcote]

Reference number: AP/68/8

Date: 1891

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Sinclair shows that the Scutigeridae respire by means of a series of organs arranged in the middle dorsal line at the posterior edge of every dorsal scale except the last.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Entomology

Received 12 August 1891. Read 26 November 1891. Communicated by A [Adam] Sedgwick.

A version of this paper was published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A new mode of respiration in the myriapoda'.

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AP/68/8
Earliest possible date
1891
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Ink on paper
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41 pages
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Manuscript

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Frederick Granville Heathcote

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Frederick Granville Heathcote, Paper, 'A new mode of respiration in the Myriapoda' by F G [Frederick Granville] Sinclair [Heathcote], 1891, AP/68/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_68_8/paper-a-new-mode-of-respiration-in-the-myriapoda-by-f-g-frederick-granville-sinclair-heathcote, accessed on 24 April 2025

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