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Paper, 'Concerning impregnation in rabbits' by William Cumberland Cruikshank

Reference number: L&P/11/23

Date: 1796

Description

Contains two plates.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Experiments in which, on the third day after impregnation, the ova of rabbits were found in the fallopian tubes; and on the fourth day after impregnation in the uterus itself; with the first appearances of the fœtys'

Read 23 March 1797

Reference number
L&P/11/23
Earliest possible date
1796
Physical description
Ink on paper and two plates
Page extent
39 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Cumberland Cruikshank

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William Cumberland Cruikshank, Paper, 'Concerning impregnation in rabbits' by William Cumberland Cruikshank, 1796, L&P/11/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_23/paper-concerning-impregnation-in-rabbits-by-william-cumberland-cruikshank, accessed on 14 December 2024

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