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Letter from John Scott Burdon Sanderson, on a paper 'Observations on the influence of certain culture fluids and medicinal reagents in the growth and development of the Bacillus tuberculosis' by C Thoedore Williams to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/247

Date: 04 May 1884

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States that 'unless there are reasons against the publication of the abstract of Dr Williams paper in the Proceedings that I am not aware of, I am disposed to advise that it should appear'.

Subject: Physiology

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1883].

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RR/9/247
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04 May 1884
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Scott Burdon-Sanderson

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John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Letter from John Scott Burdon Sanderson, on a paper 'Observations on the influence of certain culture fluids and medicinal reagents in the growth and development of the Bacillus tuberculosis' by C Thoedore Williams to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 04 May 1884, RR/9/247, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_247/letter-from-john-scott-burdon-sanderson-on-a-paper-observations-on-the-influence-of-certain-culture-fluids-and-medicinal-reagents-in-the-growth-and-development-of-the-bacillus-tuberculosis-by-c-thoedore-williams-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 21 January 2026

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