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First part of paper, 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish, and quadrupeds' by Everard Home

Reference number: PT/3/9

Date: 1809

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First part of paper until section entitled 'A chemical analysis of the fluid contained in the intervertebral cavity of the squalus maximus by Mr Wm [William] Brande'. Remainder of paper follows at PT/3/10. The illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscripts and is found at PT/73/2.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish and quadrupeds'.

Read 23 February 1809.

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/3/9
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1809
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, First part of paper, 'On the nature of the intervertebral substance in fish, and quadrupeds' by Everard Home, 1809, PT/3/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_3_9/first-part-of-paper-on-the-nature-of-the-intervertebral-substance-in-fish-and-quadrupeds-by-everard-home, accessed on 13 October 2024

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