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Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee

Reference number: RR/3/178

Date: 12 August 1857

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions in its present form. Urges author to read his views on the paper and improve it. Refers author to a paper published by the Royal Institute of the Netherlands on the same subject.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1857].

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RR/3/178
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12 August 1857
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6 pages
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Richard Owen, Referee's report by Richard Owen, on a paper 'On the existence of the decidua around the ovum within the fallopian tube, in four cases of fallopian-tube conception, and on the absence of any trace of decidua in the cavity of the uterus in the same cases' by Robert Lee, 12 August 1857, RR/3/178, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_178/referees-report-by-richard-owen-on-a-paper-on-the-existence-of-the-decidua-around-the-ovum-within-the-fallopian-tube-in-four-cases-of-fallopian-tube-conception-and-on-the-absence-of-any-trace-of-decidua-in-the-cavity-of-the-uterus-in-the-same-cases-by-robert-lee, accessed on 18 March 2025

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