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Description

Doris is a genus of sea slugs (dorid nudibranchs).

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the anatomy of Doris'.

Communicated by Prof Edward Forbes. Received by the Royal Society on 27 November 1851. Read 4 March 1852.

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.

Reference number
PT/44/1
Earliest possible date
1851
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
90 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator names

Albany Hancock

Dennis Embleton

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Albany Hancock, Dennis Embleton, Paper, 'On the anatomy of Doris' by Albany Hancock and Dennis Embleton, 1851, PT/44/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_44_1/paper-on-the-anatomy-of-doris-by-albany-hancock-and-dennis-embleton, accessed on 11 April 2026

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