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Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding three papers 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood-vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley and 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady

Reference number: RR/6/209

Date: 01 September 1869

Description

The plates for Wyville Thomas Charles Thomson's paper have been lithographed and proofs are with the paper.

Subject: Zoology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

The second referee is William Sharpey who has not read Frederic B Nunneley's paper.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Has communicated with Mr Tudden West regarding the plates for the paper by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady.

Subject: Geology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/6/209
Earliest possible date
01 September 1869
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Henry Benjamin Wheatley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding three papers 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 'The physiological action of atropine, digitaline, and aconitine on the heart and blood-vessels of the frog' by Frederic B Nunneley and 'Description of Parkeria and Loftusia, two gigantic types of arenaceous foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter and Henry Bowman Brady, 01 September 1869, RR/6/209, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_209/letter-from-henry-benjamin-wheatley-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-three-papers-on-holtenia-a-genus-of-vitreous-sponges-by-charles-thomas-wyville-thomson-the-physiological-action-of-atropine-digitaline-and-aconitine-on-the-heart-and-blood-vessels-of-the-frog-by-frederic-b-nunneley-and-description-of-parkeria-and-loftusia-two-gigantic-types-of-arenaceous-foraminifera-by-william-benjamin-carpenter-and-henry-bowman-brady, accessed on 13 February 2025

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