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Paper, 'A case of the human foetus met with in the ovarium of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville in a letter to Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/14/7

Date: 01 June 1819

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/8/5-6.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A case of the human fœtus found in the ovarium, of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month. By A. B. Granville, M.D. F. R. S. In a letter addressed to Sir Everard Home, Bart., V. P. R. S'.

Written by Granville at Saville Row [Savile Row, London]. Read 13 January 1820.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/14/7
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01 June 1819
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Ink on paper
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26 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Bozzi Granville

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Augustus Bozzi Granville, Paper, 'A case of the human foetus met with in the ovarium of the size it usually acquires at the end of the fourth month' by A B [Augustus Bozzi] Granville in a letter to Sir Everard Home, 01 June 1819, PT/14/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_7/paper-a-case-of-the-human-foetus-met-with-in-the-ovarium-of-the-size-it-usually-acquires-at-the-end-of-the-fourth-month-by-a-b-augustus-bozzi-granville-in-a-letter-to-sir-everard-home, accessed on 25 June 2025

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