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Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd

Reference number: RR/4/19

Date: 26 April 1861

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. It contains a large body of carefully observed facts.

Subject: Anatomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861].

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RR/4/19
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26 April 1861
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Benjamin Carpenter

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William Benjamin Carpenter, Referee's report by William Benjamin Carpenter, on a paper 'Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations' by Robert Boyd, 26 April 1861, RR/4/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_19/referees-report-by-william-benjamin-carpenter-on-a-paper-tables-of-the-weights-of-the-human-body-and-internal-organs-in-the-sane-and-insane-of-both-sexes-at-various-ages-arranged-from-2614-post-mortem-examinations-by-robert-boyd, accessed on 19 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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