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Paper, 'Observations upon appendicularia and doliolum - two genera of the tunicata' by Thos [Thomas Henry] Huxley

Reference number: PT/42/11i

Date: 1851

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Remarks upon the appendicularia and doliolum, two genera of the tunicata'.

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/42/11i
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1851
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21 pages
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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley, Paper, 'Observations upon appendicularia and doliolum - two genera of the tunicata' by Thos [Thomas Henry] Huxley, 1851, PT/42/11i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_42_11i/paper-observations-upon-appendicularia-and-doliolum-two-genera-of-the-tunicata-by-thos-thomas-henry-huxley, accessed on 15 March 2025

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