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Paper, 'On the black retemucosum of the negro [sic], being a defence against the scorching effect of the sun's rays' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/15/1

Date: 1820

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12 manuscript pages and one plate showing a solar eclipse across a three-hour period on 7 September 1820.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the black rete mucosum of the Negro [sic], being a defence against the scorching effect of the sun's rays'.

Read 9 November 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/15/1
Earliest possible date
1820
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'On the black retemucosum of the negro [sic], being a defence against the scorching effect of the sun's rays' by Sir Everard Home, 1820, PT/15/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_1/paper-on-the-black-retemucosum-of-the-negro-sic-being-a-defence-against-the-scorching-effect-of-the-suns-rays-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 10 February 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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