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Paper, 'An additional contribution to the placentation of the lemurs' by William Turner

Reference number: PP/12/16

Date: 1888

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Turner writes: 'In 1876 I contributed to the Royal Society a memoir “On the Placentation of the Lemurs”, which was published in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ of that year (vol. 166, Part 2). The gravid uteri which I examined and described were from specimens of Propithecus diadema, Lemur rufipes, and Indris brevicaudatus.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Embryology

Received 21 May 1888. Read 7 June 1888.

A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'An additional contribution to the placentation of the lemurs'.

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PP/12/16
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1888
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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William Turner

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William Turner, Paper, 'An additional contribution to the placentation of the lemurs' by William Turner, 1888, PP/12/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_12_16/paper-an-additional-contribution-to-the-placentation-of-the-lemurs-by-william-turner, accessed on 16 March 2026

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