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Paper, 'Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma' by Thomas Henry Huxley

Reference number: PT/42/11

Date: 1851

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Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma'.

Communicated by Edward Forbes. Received by the Royal Society on 26 February 1851. Read 27 March 1851.

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 6, 1854.

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PT/42/11
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1851
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69 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley, Paper, 'Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma' by Thomas Henry Huxley, 1851, PT/42/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_42_11/paper-observations-upon-the-anatomy-and-physiology-of-salpa-and-pyrosoma-by-thomas-henry-huxley, accessed on 27 September 2023

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