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Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum and the palate in the crocodilia (gavials, alligators and crocodiles)'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 December 1849. Read 28 February 1850.

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/38/13
Earliest possible date
1849
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Ink on paper
Page extent
13 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Paper, 'On the communications between the cavity of the tympanum and the palate in the crocodilia (gavials, alligators and crocodiles)' by Prof [Richard] Owen, 1849, PT/38/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_13/paper-on-the-communications-between-the-cavity-of-the-tympanum-and-the-palate-in-the-crocodilia-gavials-alligators-and-crocodiles-by-prof-richard-owen, accessed on 20 April 2026

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