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Portion of paper, 'Observations on the stomachs, which have been described' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/2/20

Date: 1807

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Portion of a paper published in Philosophical Transactions volume 97. Manuscript is paginated from 57-104; pages 68 and 93-95 are missing. Explanation of the plates at the end of the paper is not paginated. Full manuscript found at PT/1/9. Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscripts and are found at PT/73/1.

Subject: Zoology

Full paper published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals, with a view to elucidate the process of converting animal and vegetable substances into chyle'.

Read 30 April 1807.

Abstract of full paper 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 1, 1832.

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PT/2/20
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1807
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Ink on paper
Page extent
79 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Portion of paper, 'Observations on the stomachs, which have been described' by Everard Home, 1807, PT/2/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_2_20/portion-of-paper-observations-on-the-stomachs-which-have-been-described-by-everard-home, accessed on 14 October 2026

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