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Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'An account of the desquamation and change of colour in a 'negro' [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa' by Thomas S Savage

Reference number: RR/1/218

Date: 6 March 1846

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the subject is 'remarkable'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1843].

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RR/1/218
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6 March 1846
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'An account of the desquamation and change of colour in a 'negro' [sic] of Upper Guinea, West Africa' by Thomas S Savage, 6 March 1846, RR/1/218, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_218/referees-report-by-richard-owen-on-a-paper-an-account-of-the-desquamation-and-change-of-colour-in-a-negro-sic-of-upper-guinea-west-africa-by-thomas-s-savage, accessed on 17 January 2025

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