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Todd wishes for Wilson to be given more time to modify the paper before it is presented to the Committee once again. He claims that Wilson has 'bestowed a great deal of time and industry upon this paper'. He also claims that the paper 'contains original matter'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1844].

Reference number
RR/1/265
Earliest possible date
28 June 1843
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Bentley Todd

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Robert Bentley Todd, Letter from Robert Bentley Todd, on a paper 'Researches into the structure and development of a newly discovered parasitic animalcule of the human skin—the entozoon folliculorum' by William James Erasmus Wilson, 28 June 1843, RR/1/265, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_265/letter-from-robert-bentley-todd-on-a-paper-researches-into-the-structure-and-development-of-a-newly-discovered-parasitic-animalcule-of-the-human-skinthe-entozoon-folliculorum-by-william-james-erasmus-wilson, accessed on 10 November 2024

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