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Paper, 'Preliminary note on the nephridia of a new species of earthworm' by Frank E [Evers] Beddard

Reference number: PP/6/43

Date: 1885

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Beddard writes: 'The specimens upon which the following observations are based I owe to the kindness of Professor T Jeffrey Parker, of Otago University [New Zealand; Aotearoa]; I received from him a large number of examples of an earthworm which appears to belong to Perrier’s genus, Acanthodrilus, though differing from any of the species of that genus as yet described.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Received 19 May 1885. Read 18 June 1885. Communicated by Edwin Ray Lankester.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Preliminary note on the nephridia of a new species of earthworm'.

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PP/6/43
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1885
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Frank Evers Beddard

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Frank Evers Beddard, Paper, 'Preliminary note on the nephridia of a new species of earthworm' by Frank E [Evers] Beddard, 1885, PP/6/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_6_43/paper-preliminary-note-on-the-nephridia-of-a-new-species-of-earthworm-by-frank-e-evers-beddard, accessed on 10 December 2025

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