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Paper, 'Note on excretion in sponges' by George Bidder

Reference number: PP/19/16

Date: 1892

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Bidder writes: 'In a review of Mr Dendy’s work on the Homocoela, I briefly described (p. 628) the “flask-shaped” or “glandular” epithelium, which I believe to form the most common external covering in all groups of sponges. On p. 631 are shortly mentioned certain other granular cells, believed by Metschnikoff to be mesodermal, and by Dendy to be the dwelling place of symbiotic Algae; I proposed the neutral name of “Metschnikoff cells.”'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes four plates of magnified anatomical figures.

Subject: Zoology / Marine biology

Received 9 April 1892 / 25 April 1892. Read 12 May 1892. Communicated by Adam Sedgwick.

A version of this paper was published in volume 51 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on excretion in sponges'.

Reference number
PP/19/16
Earliest possible date
1892
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
18 pages
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Manuscript
Drawing

Creator name

George Parker Bidder

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George Parker Bidder, Paper, 'Note on excretion in sponges' by George Bidder, 1892, PP/19/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_19_16/paper-note-on-excretion-in-sponges-by-george-bidder, accessed on 19 January 2025

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