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Letter, 'On a canal in the medulla spinalis of some quadrupeds' from Mr Wm [William] Sewell to Everard Home

Reference number: PT/3/5

Date: 26 November 1808

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter on a canal in the medulla spinalis of some quadrupeds'.

Written by Sewell at [London] Veterinary College to Home at Sackville Street, London. Read 8 December 1808.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/3/5
Earliest possible date
26 November 1808
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'On a canal in the medulla spinalis of some quadrupeds' from Mr Wm [William] Sewell to Everard Home, 26 November 1808, PT/3/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_5/letter-on-a-canal-in-the-medulla-spinalis-of-some-quadrupeds-from-mr-wm-william-sewell-to-everard-home, accessed on 19 May 2026

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