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Letter from Urban Pritchard, on his paper 'On the structure and function of the rods of the cochlea in man and other mammals' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/202

Date: 12 December 1872

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Letter stating that he hasn't heard anything about whether the paper is to be published in Philosophical Transactions or not and he would like to know.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1871].

Reference number
RR/7/202
Earliest possible date
12 December 1872
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter from Urban Pritchard, on his paper 'On the structure and function of the rods of the cochlea in man and other mammals' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 12 December 1872, RR/7/202, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_202/letter-from-urban-pritchard-on-his-paper-on-the-structure-and-function-of-the-rods-of-the-cochlea-in-man-and-other-mammals-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 09 February 2026

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