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Letter from [Edgar Johnson] Allen to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'On the nature and permeability of Chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of Homarus vulgaris' by [Charles Maurice] Yonge

Reference number: RR/W/5/52

Date: 06 March 1937

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Paper reference code: B.121

Sends the manuscript and three abstracts for the paper. Communicates it for publication in the Proceedings [of the Royal Society], as Parts I and II have been published there.

[Not published, but part I and II published in the Proceedings B in 1932 and 1936].

Received 8 March 1937

Reference number
RR/W/5/52
Earliest possible date
06 March 1937
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from [Edgar Johnson] Allen to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, regarding a paper 'On the nature and permeability of Chitin, III - The nature and origin of the membranes surrounding the developing eggs of Homarus vulgaris' by [Charles Maurice] Yonge, 06 March 1937, RR/W/5/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_w_5_52/letter-from-edgar-johnson-allen-to-the-secretaries-of-the-royal-society-regarding-a-paper-on-the-nature-and-permeability-of-chitin-iii-the-nature-and-origin-of-the-membranes-surrounding-the-developing-eggs-of-homarus-vulgaris-by-charles-maurice-yonge, accessed on 14 June 2026

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