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.
- Reference number
- PT/15/1
- Earliest possible date
- 1820
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 13 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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On the black rete mucosum of the negro, being a defence against the scorching effect of the Sun’s rays External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0138
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Date: 31st December 1821
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0001
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1821
January 1819 - July 1821 Reference number: PT/15
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