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Paper, 'Researches on the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; and on the early stages of development of the embryo (third series) by George Newport

Reference number: PT/49/2

Date: 1854

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Published posthumously. Selected and arranged from Newport's manuscripts by George Viner Ellis.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches on the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; and on the early stages of development of the embryo. (third series.)'.

Communicated by Sir John Forbes. Received by the Royal Society on 6 June 1854. Read 15 June 1854.

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 7, 1856.

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PT/49/2
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1854
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32 pages
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Manuscript

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George Newport

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George Newport, Paper, 'Researches on the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; and on the early stages of development of the embryo (third series) by George Newport, 1854, PT/49/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_49_2/paper-researches-on-the-impregnation-of-the-ovum-in-the-amphibia-and-on-the-early-stages-of-development-of-the-embryo-third-series-by-george-newport, accessed on 20 April 2025

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