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Paper, 'On the structure, functions, and homologies of the manducatory organs in the class Rotifera' by Philip Henry Gosse

Reference number: PT/53/1

Date: 20 December 1854

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69 manuscript pages and 21 plates showing the anatomy of various species of Rotifera.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the structure, functions, and homologies of the manducatory organs in the class Rotifera'.

Communicated by Thomas Bell. Received by the Royal Society on 5 January 1855. Read 22 February and 1 March 1855.

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.

Reference number
PT/53/1
Earliest possible date
20 December 1854
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Ink on paper
Page extent
90 pages
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Manuscript

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Philip Henry Gosse

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Philip Henry Gosse, Paper, 'On the structure, functions, and homologies of the manducatory organs in the class Rotifera' by Philip Henry Gosse, 20 December 1854, PT/53/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_1/paper-on-the-structure-functions-and-homologies-of-the-manducatory-organs-in-the-class-rotifera-by-philip-henry-gosse, accessed on 10 November 2025

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