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Paper, 'The Croonean [Croonian] Lecture' by William Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: PT/5/1

Date: 1809

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Subject: Physiology

Published in the 1810 volume of Philosophical Transactions as 'The Croonian Lecture'.

Read 16 November 1809.

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.

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PT/5/1
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1809
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Ink on paper
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31 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hyde Wollaston

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William Hyde Wollaston, Paper, 'The Croonean [Croonian] Lecture' by William Hyde Wollaston, 1809, PT/5/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_5_1/paper-the-croonean-croonian-lecture-by-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 12 February 2026

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