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Paper, 'On the structure of the human placenta and its connexion with the uterus' by Robert Lee

Reference number: PT/20/1

Date: 20 October 1831

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Letter by Robert Lee published with this paper found at PT/20/2. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/15/1-2.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure of the human placenta, and its connexion with the uterus'.

Written by Lee at 14 Golden Square [London]. Read 17 November 1831.

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 3, 1837.

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PT/20/1
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20 October 1831
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Ink on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Lee

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Robert Lee, Paper, 'On the structure of the human placenta and its connexion with the uterus' by Robert Lee, 20 October 1831, PT/20/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_20_1/paper-on-the-structure-of-the-human-placenta-and-its-connexion-with-the-uterus-by-robert-lee, accessed on 21 March 2025

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