'A Farther Account of the Generation of Eels and the Variety of it in the Worm kind particulariz'd in the Worm, Snail and Oyster' communicated to Hans Sloane by Benjamin Allen
Reference number: RBO/14/24
Date: 1729
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Discussing reproduction of eels, earthworms, snail and oyster
Figures in text;
p. 110 shows The brain of the Eeel - the upper side and the underside; an adders brain; a hard snail; the penis, and the bottles uterus; The oyster
p. 111 shows The Great Colts Foot Oyster; the underside, with the heart, and the liver
Read to the Royal Society on 19 and 26 June 1729
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- RBO/14/24
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- 1729
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- 9 pages
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'A Farther Account of the Generation of Eels and the Variety of it in the Worm kind particulariz'd in the Worm, Snail and Oyster' communicated to Hans Sloane by Benjamin Allen, 1729, RBO/14/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_24/a-farther-account-of-the-generation-of-eels-and-the-variety-of-it-in-the-worm-kind-particularizd-in-the-worm-snail-and-oyster-communicated-to-hans-sloane-by-benjamin-allen, accessed on 17 May 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730
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