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Paper, 'Researches, tending to prove the nonvascularity of certain animal tissues, viz. of articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro cartilage; of the cornea, crystalline lens, and vitreous humour; and of the epidermoid appendages; and to demonstrate the peculiar uniform mode of their organization and nutrition' by Joseph Toynbee

Reference number: PT/25/6

Date: 1841

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/75/1/11-29.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches, tending to prove the non-vascularity and the peculiar uniform mode of organization and nutrition of certain animal tissues, viz. articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro-cartilage; the cornea, the crystalline lens, and the vitreous humour; and the epidermoid'.

Communicated by Sir Benjamin C [Collins] Brodie. Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1841. Read 20 May 1841.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/25/6
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Joseph Toynbee, Paper, 'Researches, tending to prove the nonvascularity of certain animal tissues, viz. of articular cartilage, and the cartilage of the different classes of fibro cartilage; of the cornea, crystalline lens, and vitreous humour; and of the epidermoid appendages; and to demonstrate the peculiar uniform mode of their organization and nutrition' by Joseph Toynbee, 1841, PT/25/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_25_6/paper-researches-tending-to-prove-the-nonvascularity-of-certain-animal-tissues-viz-of-articular-cartilage-and-the-cartilage-of-the-different-classes-of-fibro-cartilage-of-the-cornea-crystalline-lens-and-vitreous-humour-and-of-the-epidermoid-appendages-and-to-demonstrate-the-peculiar-uniform-mode-of-their-organization-and-nutrition-by-joseph-toynbee, accessed on 05 December 2024

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