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Drawing, 'Reproductive and segmental systems of Lumbricus jordanii' by [Thomas] Williams

Reference number: PT/75/7/5

Date: 1856

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Plate 6, figure 3 showing generative and non-generative segmental organs from the Lumbricus jordanii. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. Signed in graphite bottom left, 'Williams'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Marine Biology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Researches on the structure and homology of the reproductive organs of the annelids' by Thomas Williams.

Received by the Royal Society on 30 December 1856. Read 12 February 1857.

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PT/75/7/5
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1856
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Drawing

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Thomas Williams

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Thomas Williams, Drawing, 'Reproductive and segmental systems of Lumbricus jordanii' by [Thomas] Williams, 1856, PT/75/7/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_7_5/drawing-reproductive-and-segmental-systems-of-lumbricus-jordanii-by-thomas-williams, accessed on 14 December 2024

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