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Second letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker

Reference number: RR/8/248

Date: 30 July 1880

Description

Agrees to having his paper be in part one for 1881. Mr Newman the lithographer estimates five or six months for completion of the plates. Walter White is 'sadly cast down' by the expenses asked by Mr Newman.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1882]

Reference number
RR/8/248
Earliest possible date
30 July 1880
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Second letter from William Kitchen Parker, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker, 30 July 1880, RR/8/248, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_248/second-letter-from-william-kitchen-parker-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-a-paper-attributed-on-the-structure-and-development-of-the-skull-in-sturgeons-acipenser-ruthenus-and-a-sturio-by-william-kitchen-parker, accessed on 15 March 2025

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