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Paper, 'Preliminary notice of a new form of excretory organs in an oligochaetous annelid' by Frank Evers Beddard

Reference number: PP/17/22

Date: 1891

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Beddard writes: 'So far as our knowledge of the Oligochseta goes at present, the excretory system appears to consist either of one or more pairs of separate nephridia in each segment, or of a diffuse, irregularly arranged system of tubules with numerous external pores upon each segment, and often with numerous coelomic funnels in each segment; there may or may not be a connexion between the tubes of successive segments.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Zoology / Anatomy

Received 19 February 1891. Read 5 March 1891. Communicated by Edwin Ray Lankester.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary notice of a new form of excretory organs in an oligochaetous annelid'.

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PP/17/22
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1891
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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5 pages
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Frank Evers Beddard

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Frank Evers Beddard, Paper, 'Preliminary notice of a new form of excretory organs in an oligochaetous annelid' by Frank Evers Beddard, 1891, PP/17/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_22/paper-preliminary-notice-of-a-new-form-of-excretory-organs-in-an-oligochaetous-annelid-by-frank-evers-beddard, accessed on 14 April 2026

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