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46 manuscript pages and four plates.

Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the presence of fibrils of soft tissue in the dentinal tubes'.

Written by Tomes in Cavendish Square [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 21 February 1856. Read 13 March 1856.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/53/6
Earliest possible date
1856
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
50 pages
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Manuscript

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John Tomes

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John Tomes, Paper, 'On the presence of fibrils of soft tissue in the dentinal tubes' by John Tomes, 1856, PT/53/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_6/paper-on-the-presence-of-fibrils-of-soft-tissue-in-the-dentinal-tubes-by-john-tomes, accessed on 09 February 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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