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Paper, 'Researches into the structure and development of a newly discovered parasitic animalcule of the human skin - the entozoon folliculorum' by Erasmus Wilson

Reference number: PT/28/6

Date: 1843

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28 manuscript pages and 11 plates showing various views of the entozoon folliculorum, including numerous unpublished illustrations.

Subject: Entomology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches into the structure and development of a newly discovered parasitic animalcule of the human skin—the entozoon folliculorum'.

Communicated by Robert Bentley Todd. Received by the Royal Society on 23 November 1843. Read 14 December 1843.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/28/6
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1843
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Ink on paper
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39 pages
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Manuscript

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William James Erasmus Wilson

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William James Erasmus Wilson, Paper, 'Researches into the structure and development of a newly discovered parasitic animalcule of the human skin - the entozoon folliculorum' by Erasmus Wilson, 1843, PT/28/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_28_6/paper-researches-into-the-structure-and-development-of-a-newly-discovered-parasitic-animalcule-of-the-human-skin-the-entozoon-folliculorum-by-erasmus-wilson, accessed on 15 February 2025

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