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Paper, 'On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of the medusæ' by Thomas Henry Huxley

Reference number: PT/36/6

Date: 1849

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Subject: Zoology / Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of the medusæ'.

Received by the Royal Society on 28 March 1849. Read 2 June 1849.

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/36/6
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1849
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40 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley, Paper, 'On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of the medusæ' by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1849, PT/36/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_36_6/paper-on-the-anatomy-and-the-affinities-of-the-family-of-the-medusæ-by-thomas-henry-huxley, accessed on 27 September 2023

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