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Paper, 'On the inversion of the blastodermic layers in the rat and mouse' by Alexander Fraser

Reference number: PP/2/40

Date: 1882

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Fraser writes: 'Having been engaged since May, 1881, in the investigation of the early placentation in some of the Rodentia, rat, mouse, and guinea-pig, in which it presents peculiar features, I was so fortunate in the commencement of July of the present year to ascertain the fact that in the common grey rat and its white variety, an arrangement of the blastodermic layers existed, similar to that which had been known in the guinea-pig since the publication of Bischoff’s observations in 1852.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes 27 pages of anatomical figures.

Subject: Physiology / Embryology

Received 18 December 1882. Read 21 December 1882. Communicated by William Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the inversion of the blastodermic layers in the rat and mouse'.

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PP/2/40
Earliest possible date
1882
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
52 pages
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Alexander Fraser

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Alexander Fraser, Paper, 'On the inversion of the blastodermic layers in the rat and mouse' by Alexander Fraser, 1882, PP/2/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_2_40/paper-on-the-inversion-of-the-blastodermic-layers-in-the-rat-and-mouse-by-alexander-fraser, accessed on 17 May 2026

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