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Paper, 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, and the barnicle [sic] which impregnate themselves; and of the earth worm, the individuals of which tribe mutually impregnate one another' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/16/13

Date: 1823

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/10/18-23.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and earth worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another'.

Read 27 February 1823.

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/16/13
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1823
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24 pages
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Everard Home, Paper, 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, and the barnicle [sic] which impregnate themselves; and of the earth worm, the individuals of which tribe mutually impregnate one another' by Sir Everard Home, 1823, PT/16/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_16_13/paper-on-the-double-organs-of-generation-of-the-lamprey-the-conger-eel-the-common-eel-and-the-barnicle-sic-which-impregnate-themselves-and-of-the-earth-worm-the-individuals-of-which-tribe-mutually-impregnate-one-another-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 08 February 2025

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