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The object of this research is to determine how the nitrogenous matter excreted by marine animals into the water is removed, and what parts the various forms of vegetable life play in the process. Thus this subject is of interest from its practical bearing on questions relating to the efficient maintenance of marine aquaria, as well as from the theoretical standpoint of the changes taking place under natural conditions in the open sea. The method of investigation is chemical, physiological and bacteriological.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Biology

Communicated by [John Scott] Burdon-Sanderson.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 63 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life'.

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AP/73/11
Earliest possible date
1897
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
112 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'The relations between marine animal and vegetable life' by H M Vernon, 1897, AP/73/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_73_11/unpublished-paper-the-relations-between-marine-animal-and-vegetable-life-by-h-m-vernon, accessed on 18 March 2025

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