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Description

English translation. Contains three figures.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Alberti Haller, Archiatri et Consil. Aul. Reg. In Acad. Gottingens. Medicinæ Prof, necnon R. S. Lond. Sodalis, Observationes de Viis Seminis.'

Read 15 February 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/46
Earliest possible date
1749
Physical description
Ink on paper and plates
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Albrecht von Haller

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Albrecht von Haller, Paper, 'Of the seminal passage' by Albrecht Von Haller, 1749, L&P/2/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_46/paper-of-the-seminal-passage-by-albrecht-von-haller, accessed on 07 June 2026

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