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Paper, 'On the commissures of cerebral hemispheres of the Marsupialia and Monotremata as compared with those of the placental mammals' by William Henry Flower

Reference number: PT/71/4

Date: 1865

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52 manuscript pages and 13 plates showing the brains of humans and numerous animals including kangaroos, geese, sheep, rabbits, sloths, hedgehogs, wombats, thylacines, and echnidas.

Subject: Zoology / Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the commissures of the cerebral hemispheres of the Marsupialia and Monotremata as compared with those of the placental mammals'.

Received by the Royal Society on 24 January 1865. Read 9 February 1865.

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 14, 1865.

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PT/71/4
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1865
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Ink on paper
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65 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry Flower

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William Henry Flower, Paper, 'On the commissures of cerebral hemispheres of the Marsupialia and Monotremata as compared with those of the placental mammals' by William Henry Flower, 1865, PT/71/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_71_4/paper-on-the-commissures-of-cerebral-hemispheres-of-the-marsupialia-and-monotremata-as-compared-with-those-of-the-placental-mammals-by-william-henry-flower, accessed on 02 December 2024

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