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Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches into the nature of the involuntary muscular tissue of the urinary bladder' by George Viner Ellis

Reference number: RR/4/75

Date: 14 March 1859

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1859].

Reference number
RR/4/75
Earliest possible date
14 March 1859
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley, Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches into the nature of the involuntary muscular tissue of the urinary bladder' by George Viner Ellis, 14 March 1859, RR/4/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_75/referees-report-by-thomas-henry-huxley-on-a-paper-researches-into-the-nature-of-the-involuntary-muscular-tissue-of-the-urinary-bladder-by-george-viner-ellis, accessed on 10 March 2026

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