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Letter from Lyon Playfair, on a paper 'On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state' by William Marcet

Reference number: RR/3/187

Date: 18 April 1857

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Was not aware that the paper had already been published in Proceedings. Now knowing this, he wants to recommend its publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1857].

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RR/3/187
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18 April 1857
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Lyon Playfair

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Lyon Playfair, Letter from Lyon Playfair, on a paper 'On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state' by William Marcet, 18 April 1857, RR/3/187, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_187/letter-from-lyon-playfair-on-a-paper-on-the-immediate-principles-of-human-excrements-in-the-healthy-state-by-william-marcet, accessed on 14 September 2024

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