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Paper, 'Description of an extraordinary human foetus' in a letter from Mr B [Benjamin] Gibson to H [Honoratus] Leigh Thomas

Reference number: PT/4/5

Date: 01 June 1809

Description

33 manuscript pages and one plate showing an anterior view of the heart and arteries of the foetus.

Subject: Anatomy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Description of an extraordinary human fœtus. In a letter from Mr. Benj. Gibson Surgeon, to H. Leigh Thomas, Esq. F. R. S'.

Written by Gibson in Manchester. Read 8 February 1810.

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.

Reference number
PT/4/5
Earliest possible date
01 June 1809
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
34 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Benjamin Gibson

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Benjamin Gibson, Paper, 'Description of an extraordinary human foetus' in a letter from Mr B [Benjamin] Gibson to H [Honoratus] Leigh Thomas, 01 June 1809, PT/4/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_5/paper-description-of-an-extraordinary-human-foetus-in-a-letter-from-mr-b-benjamin-gibson-to-h-honoratus-leigh-thomas, accessed on 07 February 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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