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Hulke writes: 'In a paper recently communicated to the Royal Society by Professor H G Seeley, in which is discussed “The Nature of the Shoulder Girdle and Clavicular Arch in Sauropterygia,” [see PP/19/11] the author challenges the validity of statements relating to this girdle made by me at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London in 1883. This from so eminent a palaeoherpetologist imposed on me the task of re-examining the facts and the considerations on which were based those statements made nine years ago, and now questioned. The outcome of this enquiry I now offer to the judgement of the Royal Society.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes seven pages of coloured diagrams of bones.

Subject: Palaeontology / Herpetology

Received 11 April 1892. Read 12 May 1892.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the shoulder girdle in ichthyosauria and sauropterygia'.

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PP/20/20
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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65 pages
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John Whitaker Hulke

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John Whitaker Hulke, Paper, 'On the shoulder girdle in Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia' by John Whitaker Hulke, 1892, PP/20/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_20/paper-on-the-shoulder-girdle-in-ichthyosauria-and-sauropterygia-by-john-whitaker-hulke, accessed on 17 February 2025

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    Dates: 1882 - 1894

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