Paper, 'On the ultimate arrangement of the biliary ducts, and on some other points in the anatomy of the liver of vertebrate animals' by Lionel S [Smith] Beale
Reference number: PT/54/7
Date: 1855

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A description of minute structures in the livers of various animals prepared by the author and observed under the microscope. The paper is particularly concerned with the interconnectedness of the hepatobiliary system: the tubular networks of hepatic cells and the smallest billiary ducts. 39 manuscript pages and 17 plates.
Subject: Zoology / Anatomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the ultimate arrangement of the biliary ducts, and on some other points in the anatomy of the liver of vertebrate animals'.
Received by the Royal Society on 14 June 1855. Read 21 June 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.
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- 1855
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- 56 pages
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Lionel Smith Beale, Paper, 'On the ultimate arrangement of the biliary ducts, and on some other points in the anatomy of the liver of vertebrate animals' by Lionel S [Smith] Beale, 1855, PT/54/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_54_7/paper-on-the-ultimate-arrangement-of-the-biliary-ducts-and-on-some-other-points-in-the-anatomy-of-the-liver-of-vertebrate-animals-by-lionel-s-smith-beale, accessed on 16 July 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1856
May 1855 - February 1856 Reference number: PT/54
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