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Fragment of paper, from 'On the mammary glands of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen

Reference number: PT/20/8i

Date: 1832

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Small portion of paper by Owen. Manuscript pagination begins at 5 and ends at 7. This corresponds to approximately pages 518-520 of the published paper. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/15/22-27.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus'.

Read 21 June 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 3, 1837.

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PT/20/8i
Earliest possible date
1832
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Fragment of paper, from 'On the mammary glands of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Richard Owen, 1832, PT/20/8i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_20_8i/fragment-of-paper-from-on-the-mammary-glands-of-the-ornithorhynchus-paradoxus-by-richard-owen, accessed on 05 October 2024

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