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The undersigned recommend the paper for printing at once in the Philosophical Transactions:
Edward Sabine
William Allen Miller
William Sharpey
George Gabriel Stokes
William Hallowes Miller

Subject: Zoology, Palaeontology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/6/288
Earliest possible date
1869
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Committee report, on a paper 'On Holtenia, a genus of vitreous sponges' by Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson, 1869, RR/6/288, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_288/committee-report-on-a-paper-on-holtenia-a-genus-of-vitreous-sponges-by-charles-thomas-wyville-thomson, accessed on 06 March 2026

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