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Paper, 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus (Lincks) (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Professor [Charles Thomas] Wyville Thomson

Reference number: PT/71/1

Date: 1862

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Rosacea is a genus of marine invertebrate. 99 manuscript pages and 21 separate plates showing stages of early development of the Antedon rosaceus.

Subject: Oceanography

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus, Linck (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)'.

Communicated by Thomas Henry Huxley. Received by the Royal Society on 29 December 1862. Read 5 February 1863.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/71/1
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1862
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Ink on paper
Page extent
120 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson

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Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, Paper, 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus (Lincks) (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Professor [Charles Thomas] Wyville Thomson, 1862, PT/71/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_71_1/paper-on-the-embryogeny-of-antedon-rosaceus-lincks-comatula-rosacea-of-lamarck-by-professor-charles-thomas-wyville-thomson, accessed on 26 April 2025

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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